Flight Lets Passengers See Eclipse in the Air
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Загружено: 2017-08-26
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(22 Aug 2017) An astronaut, eclipse experts, reporters and some lucky contest winners had unique seats for the total solar eclipse on Monday.
They viewed it from 38,000 feet (11,582 meters) above the Pacific Ocean.
About 100 people wer on Alaska Airlines' special eclipse chaser charter flight, which left Portland, Oregon at 7:30 a.m. PDT and flew southwest over the ocean for about two hours before turning north to intercept the solar spectacle.
The passengers were able to watch totality - the point at which the moon completely covers the sun - from their seats.
Dr. Michael Barrett, a NASA astronaut and medical doctor who has participated in two space missions, said the last eclipse he saw was in 1979 in eastern Washington.
Barrett said that eclipse pushed him toward choosing a career in space.
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