How to see Earth’s shadow at sunrise and sunset

EarthSky’s Kelly Kizer Whitt explains how to see Earth’s shadow and the Belt of Venus, in this video. Earth’s shadow is easy to see You can see the shadow of Earth cast onto Earth’s atmosphere twice a day as a bluish band adjacent to the horizon. Just look east after sunset or west before sunrise. Like all worlds orbiting a sun, Earth casts a shadow. It extends some 870,000 miles (1.4 million km)…