https://www.cnet.com/news/total-solar-eclipse-august-2017-nasa-moon-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter/ >By now you've heard that you can only see the great American 2017 total eclipse along the 70-mile wide path of totality, but technically it can be observed from elsewhere, like around the moon itself. >Back in 2012, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) turned around to take a series of pictures of a total solar eclipse from its vantage point around the very celestial body blocking out the sun on Earth.