Space station crew captures image of moon’s shadow during solar eclipse [Video]

While millions of people looked skyward at Monday’s total solar eclipse on Monday, a handful of earthlings took in a much different view of the rare phenomenon — from the International Space Station.

As the station orbited above southeastern Canada, flight engineers Matthews Dominick and Jeanette Epps managed to photograph and videotape the moon’s shadow on Earth about 260 miles below them, NASA said on Monday.

The Expedition 71 crew had the chance to view the moon’s shadow on Earth, or umbra, after spending the day completing cargo transfers, spacesuit maintenance and microgravity research, NASA said. The windows on the outpost’s cupola — known as its “window to the world” — were open, allowing the astronauts to capture the cool images.

The International Space Station experienced about 90% totality during its flyover, and NASA posted a video of the event on social media:

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