AGU 2017 Eclipse Press Conference

Graphic depicting the geometry of a total solar eclipse.

Credit: NASA

The August 2017 eclipse is going to offer people the chance to see the total eclipse across the entire country. The total eclipse begins in Oregon at 10:15 a.m. PDT (1:15 EDT) and exit South Carolina at 2:48 p.m. EDT. The partial eclipse, will of course start earlier and end later. But the total eclipse itself will take a little over one and a half hours to cross the country. Read more here.

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. Read more here.

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Projected orbit for NASA's Solar Probe Plus, humankind's first ever mission to go to a star.

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Video showing solar material streaming off of the sun during a total solar eclipse.

Credit: Shadia Habbal

Animation showing NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission flying around the sun.

Credit: APL

Drawing of an 1860 total eclipse by G. Tempel. Note the curled structure at the bottom right of the drawing of the solar atmosphere, which may well represent what we now know to be a coronal mass ejection – a type of explosion on the sun, which sends a giant cloud of solar material out into space.

Image of the transit of Venus as seen projected onto a piece of paper. Credit: Ramon Lopez

A white light image of the solar corona taken during the total solar eclipse of 2008. This image has been processed to bring out the details of the corona’s structure, which is difficult to capture with a camera.

Credit: Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Martin Dietzel, Vojtech Rušin

Spectrographic images of solar eclipses can help scientists understand the physical processes of the sun’s atmosphere by revealing the velocity of material in different locations.

Credit: Shadia Habbal

A boy wearing protective viewing glasses watches a partial solar eclipse from Arlington, Virginia, in 2014.

Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls