WATCH: Video of the moon eclipsing the sun at the North Pole goes viral on Internet
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On social media, a video of the moon taking up the entire sky before briefly eclipsing the sun at the North Pole has gone viral. On Twitter alone, the video has been viewed over four million times. Netizens are starting to wonder if the natural phenomenon is real.
Before the video went viral on Twitter, it was first shared on TikTok by user @amoskabuthi0 on September 7th. The internet user claimed to have captured “one of nature’s miracles.”
The moon was shown orbiting incredibly close to Earth in the popular video, filling the bulk of the sky before obscuring the sun. As it did so, it turned the entire sky black for a brief moment.
The moon is in the North Pole, where the day lasts 24 hours and the moon appears in only 30 seconds completely and blocks the sun for only 5 seconds and then disappears, a breathtaking view. pic.twitter.com/kJjkEzAeaq
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According to the text on the TikTok video, while orbiting the Earth around the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole between Russia and Canada, the Moon approaches the Earth so closely that it appears to collide with it.
The moon completes the cycle above “in just 30 seconds and for 5 seconds it covers the Sun” before departing, according to the next on-screen text a few seconds into the movie.
Was the footage showing the moon at the North Pole eclipsing the sun real?
The video is fake @aleksey nz, a CGI and animation artist, created it. The video was first shared on TikTok on May 17 and has already received over 32.9 million views. On his TikTok account, where he has roughly two million followers, the inventor frequently animates space travel and sky videos and shares them.
@amoskabuthi0 posted to TikTok to prove that the video was fake, alleging that it was not shot near the North Pole. The land should be buried in snow and ice, according to viewers. The scenery, on the other hand, appeared to be dry and grassy.
According to Newsweek, the moon’s closest approach to Earth is 360,000 kilometres, implying that the moon would appear significantly smaller than depicted in the video.
The popular video also shows the numerous facets of the moon at the North Pole, which would be impossible to see all at once due to the moon’s 27-day orbital period.
When the moon appears in front of the sun, meteorologist Rebecca Barry of Max Defender 8 says you can’t see the moon at all in the sky. In such a situation, the only way to see the moon would be if the sun’s light rebounded off the surface and back to the observers. “The moon can’t be illuminated at that angle,” Barry continued.
The original artist also made a movie of a UFO circling around the moon before the video went viral.
Ankita Khanrah
Ankita Khanrah is a second-year student of the Master of Communication and Journalism (Integrated) programme at the School of Mass Communication, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.
