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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Nov 13 22:11:22 MST 2011)
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Some people travel thousands of miles to see a total eclipse of the sun -- when the full moon passes between the sun and Earth, temporarily blotting the sun from the sky. Travelers on the Mir space station captured this rare image of the spectacle as seen from space on Aug. 11, 1999. For Nemiroff, it's a fantastic educational tool: "People suddenly understand that when the moon covers the sun, there's a shadow on the earth -- and if you stand in the shadow, that's where you see the total eclipse of the sun," he says.
