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The astronauts of Apollo 12 — Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, and Dick Gordon — experienced a solar eclipse while returning home from the Moon. Their spacecraft flew through Earth’s shadow, allowing them to capture this image on their 16mm motion picture camera. Credit: NASA/JSC.

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