March 8 on Earth will occur a total solar eclipse

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The total solar eclipse can be seen from the Earth 8 March in the North American Eastern time.

The maximum phase of this phenomenon will be able to observe residents in Southeast Asia, the central and northern parts of the Pacific 9 March (local time), reports NASA.

The eclipse will begin at universal time (Greenwich Mean Time) on 23 hours 19 minutes 8 March, when lunar penumbra touches the Earth's surface in the Indian Ocean, near the shores of Sumatra Island.

As a result of the eclipse, the Moon will close the disk of the Sun, so that part of the Earth’s territory will be in the shadow and illuminated only by the faint light of the solar corona.

In each territory, this phenomenon will last from 1,5 to 4 minutes, the maximum phase will last 4 minutes 9 seconds.

NASA created a visualization of the motion of the moon and the eclipse.

“Total solar eclipses such as this are possible because of very precise planetary geometry: the Sun is 400 times larger in diameter than the Moon, but it is also 400 times farther from Earth than the Moon during a total solar eclipse. So to our eyes they appear to be the same size in the sky. This means that visually, when viewed from Earth, the Moon may completely block the Sun, while, in fact, it obscures only a small part of the inner corona of that star,” NASA explained.

NASA TV will broadcast the eclipse live.

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