Rarotonga, USA (AFP) - A total solar eclipse across North America on Monday will darken skies across Mexico, the United States and Canada. Total Light will last for 4 minutes, 28 seconds in some locations.
First place in continental North America to experience totality: Mexico's Pacific coast, around 2 p.m. EDT. The eclipse will exit continental North America over the Atlantic coast of Canada less than two hours later.
Here's the latest:
Total solar eclipse begins in the Pacific
In total eclipses in the South Pacific, the Moon comes in a perfectly straight line between the Earth and the Sun.
Over the next few hours, it will spread across North America, entering Mexico while cutting diagonally from Texas to Maine, before exiting eastern Canada into the Atlantic.
First place in continental North America to experience totality: Mexico's Pacific coast, around 2 p.m. EDT. The eclipse will exit continental North America over the Atlantic coast of Canada less than two hours later.
Here's the latest:
Total solar eclipse begins in the Pacific
In total eclipses in the South Pacific, the Moon comes in a perfectly straight line between the Earth and the Sun.
Over the next few hours, it will spread across North America, entering Mexico while cutting diagonally from Texas to Maine, before exiting eastern Canada into the Atlantic.
