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What we thought we knew about the path of totality may have been slightly wrong – a potentially big deal for some U.S. residents planning on watching the total solar eclipse.
It's been a rapid slide for the continent of ice, which was expanding until 2014. Mridula Ramesh on an ancient past, near future,and trade-offs to be made today
The far side looks a lot like the near side. NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, CC BYLooking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lighted their way after sundown. Only one side of the spherical Moon is ever visible from Earth – it wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Spacecraft Luna 3 orbited the Moon and sent pictures home that human beings were
As the lead researcher joked: 'We have to make hay while the Sun shines - or I suppose, for eclipse science, while it doesn't!'