‘A formative memory’: how US parents are planning to see the eclipse with their kids
by Tom Ambrose and Rachel Obordo from Science | The Guardian on (#6KV47)
Some US schools are closing for the day, while other families plan to travel to more remote locations to watch the solar event
The moon will completely block the face of the sun on Monday and, for a few minutes, people in the US, Mexico and Canada will experience a total solar eclipse.
The alignment between the sun and the moon has to be precise and this gives rise to a narrow track of totality - roughly 71 miles (115km) across - from which the total eclipse can be seen.
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