NASA released a composite image of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026, as it passed over Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
NASA released a composite image of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026, as it passed over Greenland, Iceland and Spain. The eclipse briefly revealed the Sun’s corona to observers in the path of totality. A NASA photographer in Spain recorded the total and partial phases until the Sun set. In northern Maine, a NASA photographer captured the International Space Station with its seven‑person crew as it passed the partially eclipsed Sun. An astronaut aboard the space station took photographs of the partial eclipse from orbit. NASA pilots flew a WB‑57F research jet at 50,000 feet through the eclipse’s shadow to extend observation time; the aircraft carried cameras that recorded the corona and prominences in multiple wavelengths. In Iceland and Spain, student teams participating in the NASA‑funded Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project launched balloons equipped with instruments to measure the eclipse’s shadow and atmospheric effects; cloud cover in Iceland did not impede data collection. Before the event, Predictive Science Inc., supported by NASA grants, used spacecraft and ground‑based observations to model the corona, and a comparison was made with images from the DEB Initiative near León, Spain. Scientists will analyze the data over the coming months and use the findings to prepare for the August 2, 2027 total solar eclipse visible in southern Spain and northern Africa.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Reliability
- high
- Published
- 8/24/2026, 10:00:30 AM
- Retrieved
- 8/24/2026, 10:00:30 AM
- Relevance
- 80%
- Confidence
- 85%

