Solar eclipse
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE SOLAR ECLIPSE: On
Sunday, Feb. 26th, the Moon passed in front of the sun, off-center,
transforming the solar disk into a crescent across much of Earth's
southern hemisphere. Oleg Toumilovitch sends this picture from
Johannesburg, South Africa:
"I caught the last moments of the eclipse just before sunset," says Toumilovitch.
While hundreds of millions of people witnessed a crescent sun, a much smaller number saw the "ring of fire." In a narrow path stretching across the southern reaches of South America and parts of Africa, the Moon passed directly in front of the sun, covering 99% of the solar disk. This allowed a fiery annulus of solar plasma to circumscribe the mountainous limb of the Moon.
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