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Lunar eclipse and logo is interactive you can drag a button on a bar, and moon gets shadow of the earth. This eclipse is important because it repeats only in 10 years so this occasion considered as rareified one. In other lunar eclipse, moon passes through cone shaped shadow of the earth slightly so duration of eclipse is less, but this time on 15th June 2011th Lunar eclipse moon passed through center of the shadow which is the longest path, and so duration of eclipse occurrence is highest all most 2 hours. By the way we were talking about another interactive Doodle of Lunar Eclipse on 15th June 2011. I captured it for you if you missed it, here is two images first one with out sliding the bar and another with after sliding the button. Watch it out directly from here : Lunar eclipse 15th June 2011

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A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun's rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, there is always a full moon the night of a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes. The most recent total lunar eclipse occurred on December 21, 2010, at 08:17 UTC. The next total lunar eclipse on June 15, 2011 will be a central eclipse, visible over Europe and south America after sunset, over Africa and most of Asia, and Australia before sunrise.

Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. A lunar eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas a total solar eclipse lasts for only a few minutes at any given place.