Google currently has a live doodle of the 100-minute-long lunar eclipse.
Those in the U.S. were out of luck this time around and were not able to view the total lunar eclipse, which is the longest in 100 years, but people in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Australia had a great view.
Google showed the eclipse in (almost) real-time from cameras in South Africa, Dubai, and the Canary Islands. The picture updated ever two minutes, so users could hit refresh button to see the updated moon. The process of the entire eclipse took five hours, but the moon was overshadowed for 100 minutes.
The images come courtesy of Slooh, the astronomy site that Google teamed up with to do the sky images for the Google Earth Sky layer. Slooh’s footage was also being streamed on Google-owned YouTube and users could download an Android app to view the eclipse on Google phones, Geek.com reported.
There will be another total lunar eclipse on December 10, 2011.
