What is the impact of solar eclipses on inventions?
A solar eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, thus, occulting the disk of the Sun. This is one of the most beautiful phenomena that may be watched by people from the Earth, you just have to be in the right place at the right time because this is a rare phenomenon which fully reoccurs only every 18 years. The next full solar eclipse is expected on 21 August 2017 during which the Moon’s shadow will be best seen by the USA population. The shadow band is around 106 km width; thus, in order to watch the lunar eclipse, everything should be planned in advance, i.e. arrival and the watching equipment. One of the main things is reaching the appropriate place in time because the duration of the total eclipse is only around 2 min 40 seconds if you are planning to be at the central line of the shadow and if we are talking about full obscuring of the disk of the Sun. This year this should be a real challenge because, according to the preliminary estimations, the greatest traffic jam in history is expected in such a narrow line because around 60 million people may be waiting for the eclipse.