When Earth experiences a total lunar eclipse, things get interesting on the Moon, too.

If you were there, on the side facing Earth, the home planet would block out the Sun. The Sun's light would not completely disappear, however. Earth would be ringed by light scattered through its atmosphere.

SPACE.com's backyard astronomy columnist, Joe Rao, puts it this way, "The Sun would be hidden behind a dark Earth outlined by a brilliant red ring consisting of all the world's sunrises and sunsets."

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