{"id":42140,"date":"2024-04-08T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42140"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:17","slug":"total-solar-eclipse-hits-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/08\/total-solar-eclipse-hits-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Total solar eclipse hits Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Totality reached\u00a0Mazatl\u00e1n,\u00a0Mexico,\u00a0at 11.07pm PT,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and will last for four minutes and 17 seconds. It\u2019s the first populated community anywhere in North America to experience totality during today\u2019s total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A reminder that you can enter your zip code on\u00a0Nasa\u2019s eclipse explorer\u00a0to find out what you can expect to see where you are, and how long you can expect to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First totality in the US will take place in Texas at 1.30pm CT. Many areas of the US are already experiencing a partial eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bill Nelson<\/strong>, the former astronaut and US senator who\u2019s now the head of Nasa, has just been on the space agency\u2019s livestream of today\u2019s eclipse explaining why it\u2019s such a big deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have the alignment of three celestial bodies, and unique things happen when that occurs. It has a profound effect here on Earth, the middle of the day and all of a sudden it gets totally dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Us earthlings are not accustomed to that, and the little earthlings, all the animals. But it\u2019s also an opportunity for us to study much more. One of those celestial bodies, that\u2019s our star, the sun, we can find out more about that gaseous explosion that\u2019s coming out from the core of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can see it better because we\u2019re not looking at the bright ball. You\u2019re suddenly looking at that corona that mass of gasses that are coming out from the edge of the sun.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totality reached\u00a0Mazatl\u00e1n,\u00a0Mexico,\u00a0at 11.07pm PT,\u00a0and will last for four minutes and 17 seconds. It\u2019s the first populated community anywhere in North America to experience totality during today\u2019s total solar eclipse. A reminder that you can enter your zip code on\u00a0Nasa\u2019s eclipse explorer\u00a0to find out what you can expect to see where you are, and how long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7024,9705,11941,7823,9292,6517,8854,1510,12187,5587,7964,6082,5795,11118,5470,5374,5355,9262,6348,594],"class_list":["post-42140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-animals","tag-astronaut","tag-bill","tag-code","tag-earth","tag-eclipse","tag-explosion","tag-mexico","tag-n","tag-nasa","tag-north","tag-senator","tag-solar","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-space","tag-sun","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42142,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42140\/revisions\/42142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}