How Ancient Chinese Solar Eclipse Records Helped to Determine the Earth’s Rotation Rate
Post-eclipse blues? Today’s paper uses solar eclipse observations made thousands of years ago to track how Earth’s rotation rate has slowed over time.
In Search of the Ring of Fire: A Modern-Day Eclipse Expedition
It would require my weekend. It would require seven hours of driving each way and at least two tanks of gas. It would probably require – ugh – camping. But I could finally see a solar eclipse.