Total Lunar Eclipse Explained By NASA - Understanding The March Blood Moon - video Dailymotion

Parts of the Americas was treated to a Total Lunar Eclipse (also known as a "blood moon") in March.   Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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00:01There's a total lunar eclipse on the way this month, visible across the Americas.

00:06Lunar eclipses can be viewed from anywhere the Moon is above the horizon at the time.

00:11The show unfolds overnight on March 13th and into the 14th, depending on your time zone.

00:16Check the schedule for your area for precise timing.

00:19Now during a total lunar eclipse, we watch as the Moon passes through Earth's shadow.

00:25It first appears to have a bite taken out of one's side, but as maximum eclipse nears,

00:30the Moon transforms into a deep crimson orb.

00:34That red color comes from the ring of all the sunsets and sunrises you'd see encircling

00:39our planet if you were an astronaut on the lunar surface right then.

00:43Afterward, the eclipse plays out in reverse, with the red color fading and the dark bite

00:48shrinking until the Moon looks like its usual self again.

00:52And here's an interesting pattern.

00:54Eclipses always arrive in pairs.

00:57A couple of weeks before or after a lunar eclipse, there's always a solar eclipse.

01:02And this time it's a partial solar eclipse that will be visible across Eastern Canada,

01:06Greenland, and Northern Europe.