In the video taken from ISS, a part of the Earth can be seen in black color. This sight is surprising people. While sharing the video on its social handle, the ISS account has written that the crew of Expedition-71, while circling the Earth, reached the shadow of the Moon during the solar eclipse on Monday afternoon.
When this video was made from the ISS, it was in the path of the solar eclipse over southeastern Canada. The black patch visible above the Earth in the video is the area affected by the eclipse, while the area seen in blue is not affected by the eclipse. This video was posted a few hours ago. Till now lakhs of people have seen and liked it.
The International Space Station is present in the low-Earth orbit, 400 kilometers above the Earth. In this, a team of astronauts from America, Russia and their allied countries is always deployed and completes space related experiments.
The International Space Station revolves around the Earth at a speed of approximately 7.6 kilometers per second. During this time it revolves around the Earth 16 times in 24 hours. The orbital path of the ISS covers more than 90 percent of our Earth’s population. ISS takes pictures of every country over which it passes.