A group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco on Tuesday to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gigantic mass of floating plastic trash, estimated by some to be double the size of the state of Texas. The team hopes to do more research on one of the most polluted locations on earth.
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UPDATE: Live stream available here.
We already know that Tuesday’s solar eclipse will be one of the most-watched events in our lifetime. This total solar eclipse will last over six and a half minutes and it will be visible, among other places, in parts of India, Butan, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Japan, and the Marshall Islands.
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A total solar eclipse encompassing a few of Earth’s most densely populated area on July 22, 2009 may be the most-viewed solar eclipse of all time.
Residents of central India and also various regions in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan will be able to briefly witness the phenomenon before the solar eclipse then moves [...]

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