What happened with the Full Moon last night, on 8th October 2014? Our big sattelite was just “swimming” in the Earth’s shadow, producing the wonderful total lunar eclipse. If there wasn’t any atmosphere around our planet, we couldn’t breathe, but also the Moon wouldn’t be that colorful during its eclipse. Our atmosphere sends mostly reddish, but also a faint turquoise hue inside the shadow (the light comes from our Sun) and makes the phenomenon so colorful.