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Triple Eclipse on Jupiter
An anonymous reader writes "The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a rare triple eclipse. Three of Jupiter's three big moons--Io, Ganymede and Callisto--eclipsed large portions of face of the giant planet. Such an event happens about once a decade."
These eclipses on Jupiter are the same as our lunar eclipses, which are visible to anyone, anywhere that can see the moon at the time they happen. Since we on Earth are so far from Jupiter, we see the entire sunlit side of Jupiter, so we see all the eclipses. Only a spacecraft close to Jupiter (or way off on some angle to it) would be unable to see the whole sunlit side. (I know that orbital paralax and our finite distance alter this a little, but not by much).
Did anyone look at the pictures before they wrote this? "teeny-weeny portions of the face of the giant planet" might be more appropriate. The red spot was many times larger than the eclipse shadow.
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