article_snippet: The left-hand animation shows how the shadow created by the eclipse on 20 March will travel over Europe .
article_snippet: This animation shows the shadow being cast over the UK, Greenland, Europe and into Russia .
article_snippet: The path of the Moon's shadow in August 1999 began in the Atlantic Ocean before covering the south of the UK, northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, southern Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary.
article_snippet: a shadow on Earth is called the umbra, and this gets smaller as a shadow on Earth reaches Earth.
article_snippet: a shadow on Earth is known as the penumbra, and this gets larger as it reaches Earth.