Did any moon landing vehicle or orbiter took pictures of a solar eclipse happening on the earth, i.e. the moon's shadow on the earth? (Alternatively from other spacecraft showing the whole globe). A link to those pictures would be nice.
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$\begingroup$ Do you mean a total solar eclipse, i.e. you want to see the Moon's 'shadow' on Earth? $\endgroup$ – Glorfindel Mar 1 '19 at 14:16
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1$\begingroup$ That's correct, the moon's shadow on the earth. $\endgroup$ – monok Mar 1 '19 at 15:10
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$\begingroup$ Not 100% what you are asking, but USAToday published a photo of the 2017 total eclipse taken from a Southwest airlines flight. You can barely see the curve of the Earth, as well as clearly seeing the shadow both on the moon and cast down on the Earth's surface: How one photographer captured this breathtaking view of the eclipse from a Southwest flight. $\endgroup$ – Greg Burghardt Mar 1 '19 at 15:20
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$\begingroup$ There may be an answer somewhere in Has the Earth's shadow on the Moon (lunar eclipse) ever been photographed from Space? or in Have there been any photos taken of a total Earth-Sun eclipse from the Moon, or its vicinity? or in Has the Moon's shadow on the Earth (solar eclipse umbra) ever been photographed from beyond Earth orbit? (cont.) $\endgroup$ – uhoh Mar 2 '19 at 0:09
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$\begingroup$ (cont.) or in Is this the only eclipse where Moon's shadow on the Earth (umbra) has been photographed by a person in space? or in Have any space stations experienced a total solar eclipse? $\endgroup$ – uhoh Mar 2 '19 at 0:10
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Such images are most readily available from full-time Earth-observing satellites.
The DSCOVR climate observatory sees the Earth from Lagrange point L1, 3.9 lunar distances toward the Sun. Its EPIC camera captured sequences of images half an hour apart for the solar eclipses of 2016-03-09 and 2017-08-21.
Geostationary satellites orbit 0.11 lunar distance from the center of the Earth. The CIMSS group at Wisconsin has a collection of various weather satellites' images of several eclipses.
A lunar point of view would fall between these two examples, qualitatively more like the former than the latter.
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$\begingroup$ Thanks, impressive photos showing the whole earth globe. $\endgroup$ – monok Mar 2 '19 at 9:58
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Oddly enough, yes-ish. quoting from a space.SE post (pictures there),
Yes, well, kind of; JAXA's Kaguya (SELENE) took images of the Earth during the February 10, 2009 penumbral lunar eclipse from lunar orbit of roughly 50 km altitude, using its HDTV camera
There have been cases of Earth-orbiting satellites catching images too. For example, space.com has an article about the Proba-2 satellite doing so.
answered Mar 1 '19 at 17:58
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$\begingroup$ The OP asks about photos of the Moon's shadow on the Earth during a total solar eclipse. $\endgroup$ – PM 2Ring Mar 2 '19 at 3:12
