Tag: sun
Solar Eclipses and Life
The basic idea is that meeting the requirements for the habitability of the Earth for observers makes it more likely that solar eclipses are possible.
Don’t Miss the Solar Eclipse! (Unless You Are Ill, or Trapped in a Dungeon)
C’mon. This is the first time in almost a century that a total eclipse will traverse the fruited plains from coast to coast.
The Best Solar Eclipses
The first pictures of an eclipse from the surface of another planet were taken by NASA’s Opportunity rover on the surface of Mars in March 2004.
Eclipse Coincidences
Total solar eclipses will be visible only for another 250 million years.
Recalling the 1979 Total Eclipse
“It rolled at you across the land at 1,800 miles an hour, hauling darkness like plague behind it.”