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Chapter 6, Figure 18
Figure
6.18
(A) Photograph
of a total lunar eclipse. (Photo courtesy Dennis di Cicco.) (B) As sunlight
falls on the Earth, some passes through the Earth's atmosphere and is slightly
bent so that it ends up in the Earth's shadow. In its passages through our
atmosphere, most of the blue light is removed, leaving only the red. That
red light then falls on the Moon, giving it its ruddy color at totality.
