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MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europe

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MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europe

European Space Agency · Official source · Aug 13, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC

Video: 00:00:04 Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – converging with the advancing twilight shadow as dusk fell over Europe.…