He Eclipse lunar 2025also known as Blood moonthis will take place March 13 and 14. According to the Guatemalan astronomer Edgar Castro, this phenomenon can be observed in different phases between the 21.57 hours of this day and will end around the 4 hours on the 14th.
According to Castro, The maximum point of this total moon eclipse will be visible at 00.58 hours On the 14th. To observe it, the use of binoculars or a small telescope for a better observation is recommended.
When a total moon eclipse occurs, Earth causes sunlight not to reach the moonwhereby the Earth’s satellite disappears completely by being covered by the shadow projected by our planet, according to NASA information.
During this type of eclipses, the moon can be reddled because the atmosphere of the earth absorbs the other colors while a part of sunlight is projected towards the surface of the moon.
When will there be another total lunar eclipse?
A total eclipse such as the one who will live the moon at dawn from this Thursday to Friday, in which it will be dyed red, “You can’t see until 2048“, As Yasmina Martos, NASA scientist, explained in an interview with EFE.
Martos, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, explained that this phenomenon occurs because the sun, earth and the moon are aligned so that the satellite passes through the complete shadow of our planet.
As he clarified, an alignment of this type “It happens every six months“, But the fact that the orbit of our satellite is inclined makes partial eclipses, not like the one that will happen tonight. When it comes to a complete one, in addition, another astronomical phenomenon known as the blood moon is given.
“As the eclipse begins and the moon begins to go through the shadow of the earth, it will begin to become orange until it becomes reddish color. That is because the light that comes from the sun passes through the atmosphere of the earth as if it were a halo and the length of the light that passes is the red one and it is the one that reaches the moon,” Martos said.
In the case in which this phenomenon could be seen from our satellite would be “how to see all the sunrises and sunsets of the earth at the same time“He said.
Coincidence of the lunar eclipse of 2025 with Pi Day
This eclipse is even more special for NASA scientists because the date on which it will take place (March 14) is Pi (3.14) day, The mathematical equation used in many scientific fields and that in this case astronomers helps to calculate which part of the moon will be covered by the shadow of the earth.
“It is very complicated that it coincides with this day. Pi is a very important number not only for mathematics, but for all science. It is quite spectacular,” he said about coincidence.
For Martos this eclipse, beyond its spectacularity, is a job opportunity, because it is involved in one of the Blue Ghost instruments, NASA’s mission on the moon that landed there on March 2.
This ship is part of the Artemis program, which seeks to bring humans back to the satellite, and this time will study data before, during and after the eclipse to continue knowing the secrets of the moon.