MADRAS, OREGON, United States (Reuters) — Millions of Americans armed with protective glasses caught a glimpse of a historic eclipse along a slender ribbon of land cutting diagonally across the United States on Monday (August 21). It marks the first total solar eclipse to unfold from coast to coast in nearly a century.
After weeks of anticipation, the sight of the moon’s shadow passed directly in front of the sun, blotting out all but the halo-like solar corona, drawing one of the largest audiences in human history, experts said.
Crowds along the so-called ‘path of totality’ camped out in Depoe Bay, Oregon, Carbondale, Illinois, and in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where the eclipse was most prominently seen. Some 12 million people live in the 70-mile-wide (113-km-wide), 2,500-mile-long (4,000-km-long) zone where the total eclipse appeared.
U.S. President Donald Trump, his son Barron, and wife, Melania, joined in on the action, watching from the White House South Portico.
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