Both of those are great but that first one is really impressive IMO.
Great post Conrad, but then again, you usually supply the info. on the important stuff going on outside the rock we live on.
Brian
Eclipse shadow from space.
http://spaceweather.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/earthtoskycalculus/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1443217922428832
SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE STRATOSPHERE (UPDATED): During the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21st, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus and Spaceweather.com launched 11 high-altitude balloons from 5 states in the path of totality. We hoped to catch the Moon's shadow sweeping across the landscape from a vantage point in the stratosphere--and we succeeded. These pictures show the inky-black shadow of the Moon darkening a 70 mile-wide patch of Wyoming/Nebraska: