Polnoe zatmenie na Madagaskare
26.07.2001 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kogda 21 iyunya 2001 goda dlinnaya lunnaya ten' kosnulas' yuzhnogo polushariya Zemli, nachalos' pervoe polnoe solnechnoe zatmenie XXI veka. Central'naya chast' lunnoi teni, gde nablyudaetsya polnaya faza zatmeniya vstupila na Zemlyu v Atlantike, peresekla yuzhnuyu chast' afrikanskogo kontinenta i krupnyi ostrov Madagaskar, a zavershila svoi put' na zakate v Indiiskom okeane.