(29 Sep 2024)
US LATIN AMERICA RING OF FIRE ECLIPSE
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ARCHIVE: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, US - 14 October 2023
1. Various of annular, also known as a 'ring of fire', solar eclipse
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Houston, Texas, US - 24 September 2024
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Carolyn Sumners, Vice President of Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science:
"October the 2nd of this year, we're going to have an eclipse. It is an annular eclipse, which means the moon is just not quite big enough to cover the sun. But it has a very interesting path across the surface of the earth. 95% of the time this eclipse, an annular eclipse, is going to be over water. So you have to get your boat in the right place. So most people won't see it - just 5% of the time it's over land. But this eclipse actually crosses Easter Island, which is the most remote inhabited place in the whole planet, with the big statues - a marvellous place to visit all by itself. So it makes it an unusual eclipse."
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ARCHIVE: Easter Island - 28 November 2022
3. Aerial of moais and Rano Raraku volcano ++MUTE++
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ARCHIVE: Easter Island - 22 November 2022
4. Sunrise and moais
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ARCHIVE: Easter Island - 28 November 2022
5. Aerial of moais and sunrise ++MUTE++
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Houston, Texas, US - 24 September 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Carolyn Sumners, Vice President of Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science:
"It will start before noon on Easter Island and it will be over by 2:50, just before 3:00 o'clock. And at the maximum, the moon will be in front of the sun, moving across the sun for about six minutes, called angularity. And it's not a total eclipse. It's an annular eclipse - you'll need the glasses to protect your eyes -but it is an unusual event made more unusual by the unusual place you get to watch it from, Easter Island."
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ARCHIVE: Eugene, Oregon, US - 14 October 2023
7. Children and adults with eclipse glasses on
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ARCHIVE: San Antonio, Texas, US - 14 October 2023
8. People looking up at sky
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ARCHIVE: Siak, Riau province, Indonesia - 26 December 2019
9. Various of people gathered in field to watch eclipse
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Houston, Texas, US - 24 September 2024
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Carolyn Sumners, Vice President of Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science:
"The most important thing about an eclipse is the experience of it. And you can have that experience any time there is an eclipse, you just have to kind of be an eclipse chaser. And it'll take you to wonderful places all over the Earth and you'll find a lot of native peoples who have different beliefs and different ways of observing things and celebrating things. And you'll be doing things, take family with you, take something special to happen, because you'll be doing this at time you can always calibrate. It's a way to chronicle your life, to use the eclipses and the stories that will be spun and the photographs that will be made associated with each one."
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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan - 21 May 2012
11. Various of people wearing glasses watching eclipse
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Houston, Texas, US - 24 September 2024
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Carolyn Sumners, Vice President of Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science:
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ARCHIVE: La Tatacoa, Colombia - 14 October 2023
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