That's why Monday's total solar
eclipse passing over the entire mainland U.S. is such a big deal!
The total solar
eclipse passing over the United States on August 21 is going to be disruptive.
Since the last total solar
eclipse passed over part of the US in 1979, we've grown a lot more dependent on solar to electrify our homes and businesses.
Not exact matches
During a 2015 solar
eclipse that
passed over Europe, 80 percent of Germany's sunlight was cut off.
Geophysicists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are preparing an unprecedented array of highly sensitive instruments at six sites across the country to take gravity readings during the total
eclipse due to
pass over southern China on 22 July.
The geographic region that will see a total solar
eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out
over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after
passing through Columbia, South Carolina.
As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial
eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to
pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.
On August 21, 2017, a total solar
eclipse will
pass over the Pacific Northwest, creating partial
eclipse conditions in parts of California from approximately 9 am — 12 noon (PST)-- the exact time of day when solar is typically ramping up - and obscuring the sun by up to 76 % in some areas of the state.