Google doodles total lunar ellipse June 16, 2011 - 10:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Google currently has a live doodle of the 100-minute-long lunar eclipse. Those in the U.S. were out of luck this time around and were not able to view the total lunar eclipse, which is the longest in 100 years, but people in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Australia had a great view. Google showed the eclipse in (almost) real-time from cameras in South Africa, Dubai, and the Canary Islands. The picture updated ever two minutes, so users could hit refresh button to see the updated moon. The process of the entire eclipse took five hours, but the moon was overshadowed for 100 minutes. The images come courtesy of Slooh, the astronomy site that Google teamed up with to do the sky images for the Google Earth Sky layer. Slooh’s footage was also being streamed on Google-owned YouTube and users could download an Android app to view the eclipse on Google phones, Geek.com reported. There will be another total lunar eclipse on December 10, 2011.   Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020."   Partner news Most popular in the section |  Latest news OSCE vows support for Armenia “in all three directions of security”  Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg.151 detained as civil disobedience campaigns continue in Yerevan Citizens have been blocking streets in the Armenian capital, demanding Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation.IDBank issues 2nd tranche of dollar bonds of 2024 On May 13, 2024, IDBank placed registered coupon bonds under the abbreviation AMANLBB2PER9.Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. |
