A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
The next total eclipse of the moon will happen in the early morning of April 4. Don’t blink, though — this eclipse is quick. The moon will plunge through the central part of Earth’s shadow for only about five minutes. During totality, the moon will be bathed in a deep red glow from sunlight bending through Earth’s atmosphere.
The upcoming eclipse is the third in what’s known as a tetrad, a relatively rare sequence of four consecutive total eclipses spaced six months apart.
For anyone living east of the Mississippi, sorry, the sun is going to spoil the show. The sun will come up while the moon is entering the deepest part of Earth’s shadow. The farther west you are, the more eclipse you’ll see, with residents from Hawaii to eastern Australia being treated to an uninterrupted show.
If you can’t view the eclipse from your location, you’re not out of luck. The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will stream the eclipse online beginning at 5 a.m. Eastern time, as will the Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh.
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