[Sakes]

When the moon casts a shadow on the earth we (on the surface) experience it as a solar eclipse.

For these images, the moon is not directly between the sun and the earth, so it cannot block sunlight from hitting the earth. So, no shadow.

[coldsmoke]

But the satellite is at the L1 Lagrange point which is between the earth and the sun. So if you see the moon pass in front of the earth from L1 shouldn't the moon then also be directly between the earth and the sun? And as someone in another post noted: you can see the suns reflection in the ocean. And the moon passes directly over this spot.

[Sakes]

All you can take away from the moon passing over the sun's reflection is this. The moon crossed over the sunlight reflected from the earth. To create a shadow, the moon must cross through the light emitted from the sun.

This image might better help explain. Since the earth's orbital plane is in a different xy plane than the moon's, the moon crossing over the reflection guarantees nothing about whether it crossed the sun's emitted light.

http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_e...

[coldsmoke]

Ah, yes of course. And as cyanoacry noted in another comment, the satellite isn't actually in the Lagrange point - it is orbiting it. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Sakes]

Oh nice, ya, I didn't address the Lagrange point because I didn't have any knowledge of it.