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- The longest total lunar eclipse of the century happened last week, on July 27.
- Although the event looked stunning from many parts of Earth, a 2014 video from NASA's Messenger satellite reveals what the event would have looked like from Mercury.
On the night of July 27 and the early morning hours of July 28, sky-watchers across the Eastern Hemisphere were treated to the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon are directly aligned, and the moon's orbit brings it into Earth's shadow. The moon passes through the darkest region of Earth's shadow, known as the umbra, which gives the moon a reddish sheen because of the way the sun's light gets refracted by Earth's atmosphere.
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