By Jessica Stewart on June 14, 2021
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The “Ring of Fire” annular eclipse happened over the weekend, but unless you happened to be in a remote part of northern Canada or Greenland, you missed out on the full experience. But the good news is that even a partial solar eclipse is quite spectacular. If you aren t convinced by that, let NASA photographers Bill Ingalls and Aubrey Gemignani change your mind.
Both photographers stationed themselves on the East Coast to get a view of the partial eclipse and document it for the Space Agency. Early morning, each headed out Ingalls to Arlington, Virginia, and Gemignani to Delaware to capture their own unique perspective of the event by showing the eclipse in different environments. Ingalls work shows the fiery Sun, turned into a crescent by the eclipse, hovering above the U.S. Capitol Building. Gemignani, however, took a more pul