Space Videos

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[A visualization of the Earth, with North America in the center, appears with stars in the background. The logo for the American Museum of Natural History animates on and then off. After it disappears, red and yellow lines appear crossing North America.]

[TEXT: April 8, 2024]

[The start start to rotate, and a shadow falls inbetween the yellow and red lines. Labels pointing to the yellow lines indicate “Partial eclipse” with 80% and 60% coverage indicated. Another label points to the red line, indicating “Total eclipse, 100% covered.”]

[TEXT: For the purposes of this visualization, the Earth is fully illuminated.]

[After the eclipse shadow finishes flying over the United States, the lines and date fade away, and the Earth rotates to closer to the North Pole, and an eclipse path appears over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.] 

[TEXT: August 12, 2026.]

[TEXT: Because the Earth is a sphere and tilted relative to the Sun, partial visibility will vary closer to the poles.] 

[After the eclipse shadow flies through the eclipse path, the Earth rotates to show northern Africa. An eclipse path appears over Morocco, Spain, and Egypt, down to Yemen and Somalia.]

[TEXT: August 2, 2027.] 

[The eclipse shadow passes over and along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show Australia. An eclipse path appears, curving across Australia and New Zealand.] 

[TEXT: July 22, 2028]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show a span of ocean between Australia and Africa. The eclipse path arcs between the two continents.] 

[TEXT: November 25, 2030] 

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show an almost-landless span of the Pacific Ocean, with North America just barely visible to the East. An eclipse path appears, arcing south and then east through the ocean.]

[TEXT: November 14, 2031.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears to the east, the Earth rotates to show the North Pole area. An eclipse path appears, almost semi-circular, over Alaska and Russia.] 

[TEXT: March 30, 2033.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show Africa. An eclipse path appears, moving through Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran.] 

[TEXT: March 20, 2034.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show eastern Asia and a big span of the Pacific Ocean. An eclipse path appears moving across China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan.] 

[TEXT: September 2, 2035.] 

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. The Earth rotates slightly to show more of the path extending across the Pacific Ocean. After the eclipse path disappears, the Earth rotates to show Australia. An eclipse path crosses over Australia and New Zealand.] 

[TEXT: July 13, 2037.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. The Earth rotates slightly to the East of Australia, now showing more of New Zealand. Another eclipse path appears, also arcing through Australia and New Zealand.]

[TEXT: December 26, 2038.] 

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show Antarctica. An eclipse path appears over Antarctica.]

[TEXT: December 15, 2039.] 

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show southern central Africa. An eclipse path appears, flying over Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia.] 

[TEXT: April 30, 2041.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show the Malay archipelago and other southeast Asian islands. An eclipse path appears, flying over Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Phillippines.]

[TEXT: April 20, 2042.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After it disappears, the Earth rotates to show the area where Russia and Alaska come together. An eclipse path that is essentially a semicircle appears over the easternmost part of Russia.] 

[TEXT: April 9, 2043.]

[The eclipse shadow passes along the eclipse path. After the eclipse path fades away, the Earth starts to zoom out and away from the viewer into the stars. 

Credits roll.

Producer

Lee Stevens

OpenSpace Visualizations

Deion Desir

Music

“Winter Landscape” by Miro Berlin (GEMA) / Warner/Chappell Production Music

OpenSpace is funded in part by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

OpenSpace is funded in part by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.]

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