A Concorde was once used to study a solar eclipse in a way no ground-based observer could match. Normally, the longest a total eclipse can be seen from one point on Earth is just over seven minutes. But in 1973, scientists extended that window more than tenfold by chasing the Moon’s shadow across Africa at supersonic speed. For 74 extraordinary …
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