14 DAY TRIAL // A total solar eclipse happened about a month and a half ago, on March 20, and an international team of researchers led by astronomy enthusiast Shadia Habbal with the University of Hawaii at Manoa traveled all the way to the Arctic to observe it.
The team talked about this latest expedition of theirs during a recent conference held in Indianapolis, US. To mark the occasion, they also released a gorgeous photo showing what the March 20 total solar eclipse looked like to them. The photo is available next to this article.
Talking to the press, researcher Shadia Habbal and fellow Arctic explorers explained that they studied and photographed the eclipse from the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Over this region, totality lasted for 2 minutes and 20 seconds, Live Science tells us.
Being armed with high-tech cameras, the team got to photograph not just the moon covering the Sun's surface and hiding it from view but also the solar corona, which is basically an aura of plasma documented all around our parent star and other celestial bodies.
This year's total solar eclipse on March 20 was followed by a total lunar eclipse on April 4. Another total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from here on Earth about a year from now, on March 9, 2016.