Google India welcomes Lunar Eclipse in their funky Google logo. It observes 15^th of June 2011, the day on which the most recent total Lunar Eclipse occurred by laying down a clear sketch of the passing through of moon behind the Earth and makes its viewers aware of the same.

The lunar eclipse can happen only when the Sun, Earth and Moon are associated exactly or very closely, with Earth in the middle. It is when the moon passes behind the Earth the Lunar Eclipse occurs, as then the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon. Therefore a lunar eclipse can occur only at the night of a full moon.

A Lunar Eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. It lasts for a few hours unlike the Solar Eclipse which is only for a few minutes at a given place.

A total Lunar Eclipse took place on 15^th of June 2011, which was the first of two such eclipses in the same year and the longest Eclipse in 11years.

This was a relatively rare Central Lunar Eclipse where the central point of Earth’s shadow passed across the moon. It was one of the darkest Lunar Eclipse and was seen across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.

The Lunar Eclipse which took place on 16^th of July 2000 was closer to the center of Earth’s shadow. And the occurrence next Lunar Eclipse will be only in 2141.

Google moves in shades of Total Lunar Eclipse

Google doodle with beautiful Total Lunar Eclipse

Reporter: Sharika M.