Watch the Moon's Shadow Flit Over the Earth's Surface

Did you miss the solar eclipse over the weekend? Fear not! New images of the shadow of the moon passing over the Earth's surface have been released, and they're even more impressive than those Earthbound glamour shots you've been seeing. The animation is created from images taken by Meteosat-10, a weather satellite run by the European consortium EUMETSAT. The satellite is in geostationary orbit over Africa, making it perfectly placed to see this eclipse's umbra---the darkest and most cent