Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA's MODIS Rapid Response Team
"Because the shadow was moving across Earth's surface as the satellite approached, it has a long oblong shape in this image. In an instantaneous snapshot from a platform that was not moving relative to Earth, the shadow would be more circular."
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