2023-10-15 04:00:00
Solar eclipse transfixes crowds across the Americas
Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sunmomentarily producing the appearance of a “ring of fire” in the sky.
“It’s one of those things you can’t miss,” said Oscar Lopez, who travelled from Mexico City to the southern Mexican city of Campeche to see the eclipse. “It’s amazing. We’re really lucky as human beings to be able to experience these things.”
NASA said the eclipse was following a path from the US Pacific Northwest over California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, crossing over parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia and Brazil before ending at sunset in the Atlantic Ocean.
Lopez and his family were among hundreds of spectators wearing sunglasses who gathered to watch the moon slowly glide across the face of the morning sun in Campeche, a picturesque colonial-era city on the western edge of the Yucatan peninsula.
(REUTERS)
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