Plan to wash lots of clothes if you travel the world. (Photo: George Doyle/Stockbyte/Getty Images ) Phileas Fogg took 80 days to travel the world to win a bet. Nellie Bly beat that record by eight days to prove the resourcefulness of solo female travelers. Neither the fictional Fogg nor the ...
It is a popular misconception that the phenomenon of a total eclipse of the sun is a rare occurrence. Quite the contrary. Approximately once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on the Earthâs surface. That's two totalities for every three years.
A solar eclipse occurs in the day time at new moon, when the moon is between the Earth and the sun, while a lunar eclipse occurs at night when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon. The moon does not completely disappear as it passes through the umbra because of the refraction of sunlight by the Earth's atmosphere into the shadow cone.