<ul><li>A spacecraft parked on the moon captured stunning images of the solar eclipse from the moon's surface.</li><li>The eclipse showed the distant sun being slowly eclipsed by the dark orb of Earth until only a bright ring remained.</li><li>The eclipse marked the moment of totality, during which the sun's disk is entirely blocked, and the moon is in the darkest part of Earth's shadow.</li><li>The lunar eclipse, also known as 'blood moon,' lasted about six hours, with totality lasting for an hour.</li></ul>

Watch: Spacecraft films 'diamond ring' solar eclipse from the surface of the moon as 'blood moon' looms over Earth

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