The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Will Be Historic — Here’s Why

Staff|Education|30 Nov 2016

The Path of a Solar Eclipse

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While the sight of a solar eclipse is incredibly dramatic, the path of the solar eclipse is quite restrained – the width is often only 100 miles across on the earth’s surface but the length of the sweep of an eclipse (again on the surface of the earth) can be up to 10,000 miles.