Solar Eclipse Preview: 2011 - 2020. Diamond Ring Effect The diamond ring effect is seen during the Total Solar Eclipse of 1991 July 11.
(click to see more photos) Fred Espenak (c) 2012 Introduction An eclipse of the Sun (or solar eclipse) can only occur at New Moon when the Moon passes between Earth and Sun. Amazing Hubble Pictures. Photograph courtesy John Spencer (Lowell Observatory) and NASA In 1999, to commemorate the ninth anniversary since its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope took this dramatic snapshot of Jupiter’s moon Io and its shadow sweeping across the gas giant’s turbulent atmosphere.
About the size of Earth’s moon, Io is the most volcanic body in the solar system and orbits 500,000 kilometers above the planet’s cloud tops. Rovio takes its popular game to the final frontier with Angry Birds Space, launching March 22, in partnership with National Geographic Books and NASA. Purchase the official companion book National Geographic Angry Birds Space.
National Geographic#/coronal-loops_905_600x450.jpg#/trico_1261_600x450.jpg. National Security Agency (NSA) Releases UFO Files. It’s November 2012, many people on the planet are aware that dozens of governments have been releasing their UFO files.
Thousands of UFO files are now available in the public domain. These files indicate that governments have departments within them that monitor and study the UFO phenomenon.