![]() MIT had several hundred pairs of eclipse glasses on hand for this event. These glasses are made of special material designed to filter almost all (99.999%) of visible light, and 100% of UV light. The most numerous option were the solar eclipse glasses. For this partial eclipse (maximum of 63% of the sun was covered by the moon), a variety of viewing options were available: two specially-filtered telescopes, a solar projection device, opportunities to make pinhole projections viewers (or use one of several colanders being passed around). Therefore, it is no surprise that scientists in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) were intensely aware that on Augthe sun was to be eclipsed by the moon.ĮAPS was host to a hugely successful public eclipse-viewing event on the MIT Campus, Kresge Oval. The sun provides the illumination by which we see all the planets and minor bodies in our solar system.
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