This image, produced entirely in photoshop, was inspired by a description that was written by three
NASA astronauts. They are the only members of humankind to have seen this
extraordinary view of an eclipse of the sun by the earth as seen from space.

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"So the Sun moves 29.5 times slower than our Earth-sense tells us it should.
At that leisurely pace, the Sun approaches a dark but faintly-glowing disk three times its own size.

The disk is Earth with its night side facing the Moon. You can see moonlit clouds
floating over Earth's dark oceans and continents.

You can also see a faintly glowing ring of light around the planet - that's Earth's atmosphere
with sunlight trickling through it. A telescope would show you Earth's city lights, too; beautiful.

Then the eclipse begins.
Looking through dark-filtered glasses, you watch the Sun slip behind Earth.
Earth's atmosphere, lit from behind, glows red, then redder, a ring of fire the color of sunset,
interrupted here and there by the tops of the highest clouds.

Ninety minutes later - patience is required! -
Only a little bit of the Sun remains poking out over the edge of the planet. Arranged just so,
the pair remind you of a giant sparkling diamond ring".

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