![]() ![]() The umbra is shown at 3-minute intervals, with times in the local time zone at the umbra center. Except for Montana, each map is 8 inches wide (or high) at 300 DPI. A map of each of these states, created for NASA's official eclipse 2017 website, is presented here. The path of totality passes through 14 states during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. Scientists will be able to take ground-based and airborne observations over a period of an hour and a half to complement the wealth of data provided by NASA assets.Learn more at more videos about the solar ecilpse on the Sun Eclipse 2017 gallery page. This is truly one of nature’s most awesome sights.The eclipse provides a unique opportunity to study the sun, Earth, moon and their interaction because of the eclipse’s long path over land coast to coast. Bright stars and planets will become visible as well. During those brief moments when the moon completely blocks the sun’s bright face for 2 + minutes, day will turn into night, making visible the otherwise hidden solar corona, the sun’s outer atmosphere. Halfway through the event, anyone within a 60 to 70 mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina will experience a total eclipse. The whole continent will experience a partial eclipse lasting two to three hours. ![]() || On Monday, August 21, 2017, our nation will be treated to a total eclipse of the sun.The eclipse will be visible - weather permitting - across all of North America. Music credit: Ascending Lanterns by Philip HochstrateWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. Watch this video on the Video YouTube channel. Music Provided by Universal Production Music: “Bring Me Up” – Anders Gunnar Kampe & Henrik Lars Wikstrom. This video explains how our moon creates a solar eclipse, why it's such a rare event to see, and how data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has enhanced our ability to map an eclipse's path of totality. MoonsRoleEclipseThumnail.tif (1920x1080) ġ2648_MoonsRoleInASolarEclipse_Captions.en_US.srt ġ2648_MoonsRoleInASolarEclipse_Captions.en_US.vtt MoonsRoleEclipseThumnail_searchweb.png (320x180) MoonsRoleEclipseThumnail_thm.png (80x40) LROSolarEclipse_Thumbnail.jpg (1080x1920) MoonsRoleEclipseThumnail_print.jpg (1024x576) ![]()
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