Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, reporters stood watches-some in five-hour shifts. They tanned themselves in the summer sun during the daytime, complained during the nights...
Water wells are miles apart. Under the blistering sun, the temperature of the sand often reaches 180° F. Despite these forbidding conditions, foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell...
...eclipse is more than a curiosity. Its unusual length will provide crucial extra moments for numerous wide-ranging experiments that can best be performed during such a solar blackout. Scientists, for instance, will search for comets and other bodies close to the sun-possibly even a small undiscovered planet-that would normally be hidden by solar glare. They will also test Einstein's general theory of relativity by measuring the degree to which light from distant stars is bent by solar gravity as the rays pass near the sun. It is during an eclipse that scientists can fully observe...
...least of the observations are those related to the terrestrial environment, involving the sun's influence on the earth's atmosphere, weather and magnetic field...
...narrow strip of earth along which the shadow of the moon travels as the lunar disk completely obscures the sun...