2023 September 17 - Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse

In today's image, we see an image of an annular eclipse of the Sun from 2020. This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon is a bit farther away and does not appear quite large enough to block out the entire disk of the Sun. A similar eclipse will occur next month and a total solar eclipse will occur in April of next year.

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