Solar eclipse and hurricane in one screen

Recently, total solar eclipses were observed in Chile and Argentina. Around the time this astronomical show was going on in South America, Hurricane Barbara, known to be the most powerful on earth, appeared in the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, such a solar eclipse and hurricane cannot be captured all at once from the ground, but a geostationary satellite floating 22,300 miles above seems to have been in an appropriate position. Not long ago, two satellites operated by the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA captured it.

GOES-17, a satellite that observes hurricanes over the Pacific Ocean and the western half of North America, captures the shadows of the moon sliding between the sea and South America as it passes between the Earth and the Sun. In South America, it was captured in one screen with Hurricane Barbara, incomparable to what anyone who observed the black sun from the ground.

A major hurricane.

A total solar eclipse.

Earth is breathtaking. pic.twitter.com/U1rnfvczUt

— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) July 2, 2019

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This hurricane is the first major hurricane to have occurred in the eastern Pacific this year. Wind speed is classified in Category 5, reaching 155 miles per hour. Fortunately, it is far from the land.

In addition, GOES-16, NOAA’s satellite, which observes eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean in South America, also captured an eclipse approaching Chile. The satellite is used to monitor Atlantic hurricanes, with Barbara on the inside.

So cool! The shadow of the Moon was captured on @NOAASatellites GOES-16 images as it raced across the southern Pacific toward Chile, seen here using data compiled by @CollegeDuPage ‘s weather site https://t.co/162zb8xQBC (ht @weatherdak ) #wx #EclipseSolar2019 pic.twitter.com/BuctR8oOke

— Jason Major (@JPMajor) July 2, 2019

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It is an image that is realized by the miracle of science and technology, but it is a picture that makes you feel grateful for the fact that you live on an amazing planet called Earth, equipped with the technology to calculate the time and place of the astronomical eclipse, or predict a hurricane.