--- ---  # See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Mar 20, 2015 1:01 PM UTC  The total solar eclipse seen from Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015. The total solar eclipse seen from Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015.Olav Jon Nesvold—EPA by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Mar 20, 2015 1:01 PM UTC  The total solar eclipse seen from Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015. Olav Jon Nesvold—EPA  The sun through clouds during the maximun solar eclipse seen from the Jolimont observatory in Toulouse, France on March 20, 2015. Alain Pitton—Demotix/Corbis  A partial solar eclipse of the sun is visible in Rabat, Morocco on March 20, 2015. Abdelhak Senna—EPA  A total solar eclipse occurs over Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015. Haakon Mosvold Larsen—NTB Scanpix/Reuters  A dove is pictured in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Munich on March 20, 2015. Alexander Hassenstein—Getty Images  A partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds in Sofia, Bugaria on March 20, 2015. Stoyan Nenov—Reuters  Partial Solar eclipse seen from Yorkshire, United Kingdom on March 20, 2015. Nigel Roddis—Rex USA  The moon passes between the sun and the earth after the totality phase of a total solar eclipse as from Torshavn, the capital of the Faeroe Islands on March 20, 2015. Matt Dunham—AP Solar Eclipse Photos 2015 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/"},"headline":"See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures","datePublished":"2015-03-20T13:01:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:57.964Z","description":"Friday's total solar eclipse plunged parts of the world into darkness, as many marveled at the rare sight","url":"https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/","keywords":["Space","moon","Science topic","photography","sun","solar eclipse"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4fb22292a583bc4/6987847fe53aba0f994d82be/solar-eclipse-2015-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4fb22292a583bc4/6987847fe53aba0f994d82be/solar-eclipse-2015-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Total Solar Eclipse 2015","caption":"Total Solar Eclipse 2015","creditText":"Olav Jon Nesvold—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/","name":"See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures"}}]}] ```