Partial solar eclipse seen from space

The new Moon passed briefly in front of the sun, positioning itself between SDO spacecraft and Sun, producing a partial solar eclipse on February 21 at 14:11 UTC (about 9:11 a.m. EST). No ground observers could spot it, it was visible only from space.  It was a fairly shallow transit, but the Moon covered a bright active region. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) took stunning image from geosynchronous orbit approximately 36,000 km above Earth's surface using a bank of 16 megapixel cameras. You can watch the movie of this eclipse thanks to Steele Hill, SDO Media Specialist at the Goddard Space Flight Center.