People in a small swath of Europe were treated to a total solar eclipse early Friday morning as the moon aligned to fully block the sun from their vantage point on Earth.
The European Space Agency published images of the eclipse recorded by a small Proba-2 satellite.
Americans haven’t seen a total solar eclipse since 1979, and certain states will see the next one on Aug. 21, 2017.
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The total solar eclipse seen from Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015. Olav Jon Nesvold—EPAThe sun through clouds during the maximun solar eclipse seen from the Jolimont observatory in Toulouse, France on March 20, 2015.Alain Pitton—Demotix/CorbisA partial solar eclipse of the sun is visible in Rabat, Morocco on March 20, 2015. Abdelhak Senna—EPAA total solar eclipse occurs over Svalbard, Norway on March 20, 2015.Haakon Mosvold Larsen—NTB Scanpix/ReutersA dove is pictured in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Munich on March 20, 2015.Alexander Hassenstein—Getty ImagesA partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds in Sofia, Bugaria on March 20, 2015.Stoyan Nenov—ReutersPartial Solar eclipse seen from Yorkshire, United Kingdom on March 20, 2015.Nigel Roddis—Rex USAThe 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
