But this time, it will run from Southwest to Northeast, ending over Maine. And it will be April, so rain or even snow might be a visibility problem over continental land-masses. So I think being mobile on the warm water will be the best viewing / videoing strategy. And who doesn't love the idea of Tulum, for a week -- before or after? Or. . . both! From NASA, then:
. . .NASA has awarded funding for three science teams to conduct citizen science investigations as a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, 2024. In these experiments, volunteers will help study the Sun and its ethereal outer atmosphere, called the corona, which is revealed when the Moon completely covers the Sun’s bright disk.
“During next year’s total eclipse, hundreds of volunteers will capture images of the Sun and its corona to help answer real science question about our star and how it affects us,” said program scientist and eclipse lead at NASA Headquarters, Kelly Korreck.
“These three projects will build upon citizen scientific efforts from the 2017 solar eclipse and allow a multitude of ways to participate in the eclipse during the Heliophysics Big Year,” said NASA Heliophysics citizen science lead, Elizabeth MacDonald. “Volunteers make this important research possible, and we look forward to seeing what they help reveal. . . .”
Experiences are what enrich our lives, in last measure, through memories -- not material things, per se. . . and why not a sublime experience, indeed, infused with solar science experimentation. . . in those crystal blue glassy warm waters? Why. . . not? Grin -- out, as it will be more than a century before it occurs again over the heart of America.
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