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| Above, the area near Roberts, Idaho in the eclipse shadow. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
A few months from now, it will be a year since the Great American Eclipse took place across the United States.
I traveled to Idaho to view the eclipse and I wasn't disappointed. The trip to see it was worth it.
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| Above, the total eclipse. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It has been theorized that solar eclipses cause disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere, or waves. That theory has been confirmed.
Newsweek reported:
Brian Harding drove south to St. Louis last August to watch the total solar eclipse, but he didn't stay long after the spectacle. "As soon as it was over, I drove back to the city and opened up my computer and was making sure the instrument was taking data and everything," he told Newsweek.
That's because Harding, an engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who focuses on space science, had organized an experiment to run during the eclipse's aftermath. He was hunting for elusive evidence of a long hypothesized atmospheric phenomenon, a giant wave traveling thousands of miles triggered by the abrupt night of the eclipse. As he and his colleagues report in a new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the observations were successful, finally backing up decades of scientific suspicion.
Harding had to check the instrument from his computer because the wave was hundreds of miles south of where the eclipse passed overhead. He and his colleagues were exploring the distant ripples felt in Brazil as the atmosphere adjusted to the event's aftermath.
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