{"id":381037,"date":"2026-03-06T02:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=95e1dfa212eb923840a4225b28038b37"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:19","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=381037","title":{"rendered":"Total Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Moon appears red during a total lunar eclipse<\/a> over New Orleans, home of NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility, on March 3, 2026. This “blood moon”<\/a> occurs during a total lunar\u00a0eclipse, as Earth lines up between the Moon and the Sun. When this happens, the only light that reaches the Moon’s surface is from the edges of Earth’s atmosphere. The air molecules from Earth’s atmosphere scatter out most of the blue light. The remaining light reflects onto the Moon’s surface with a red glow, making the Moon appear red in the night sky. This is the same effect that turns the sky pink, orange, and red at\u00a0sunrise and sunset.<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/Michael DeMocker<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Moon appears red during a total lunar eclipse over New Orleans, home of NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility, on March 3, 2026. This \u201cblood moon\u201d occurs during a total lunar\u00a0eclipse, as Earth lines up between the Moon and the Sun. When this happens, the only light that reaches the Moon\u2019s surface is from the edges [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earths-moon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381038,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381037\/revisions\/381038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}