Lunar, Solar Eclipses Hold Secrets to Other Worlds

Total Lunar Eclipse, 2004. Credit: Fred Espenak

Want to know about the atmospheres of planets around other stars, and the stars themselves?

Start at home.

A pair of papers in this week’s issue of Nature is advocating continued studies of both lunar eclipses, when the Moon transits Earth’s shadow, and solar eclipses — when the Moon comes directly between Earth and the sun.

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