--- title: Solar Eclipse Photos 2015 description: Friday's total solar eclipse plunged parts of the world into total darkness, while others marveled at the rare site. canonical: https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-20T13:01:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:57.964Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures og:description: Friday's total solar eclipse plunged parts of the world into darkness og:url: https://time.com/3752275/solar-eclipse-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4fb22292a583bc4/6987847fe53aba0f994d82be/solar-eclipse-2015-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Total Solar Eclipse 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures twitter:description: Friday's total solar eclipse plunged parts of the world into darkness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4fb22292a583bc4/6987847fe53aba0f994d82be/solar-eclipse-2015-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Best Solar Eclipse Pictures > Sponsored content. 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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. 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