LIVE: Solar Eclipse To Create Rare ’Ring Of Fire’ Over South America | News18 Live | N18G

LIVE: Solar Eclipse To Create Rare ’Ring Of Fire’ Over South America | News18 Live | N18G Live showing the progression of the annular solar eclipse, which is visible in Easter Island and in southern Chile and Argentina. An annular solar eclipse is produced by the sun, moon, and earth aligning. The moon is too far away (and therefore too small) to cover the sun completely, but for a brief period of ‘annularity’, the sun forms a ‘ring of fire’ around the moon. The eclipse is expected to last 6 hours, 2 minutes. Key timings: 1542GMT: Start of partial eclipse over the Pacific Ocean; 1650GMT: Start of annular eclipse over the Pacific Ocean; 2018GMT: Start of the annular eclipse in South American (mainland) The maximum duration of annularity in the Pacific Ociean is 7m 24s and the maximum duration of annularity in South America’s mainland is 6m 25s. #news18live #cnnnews18live n18oc_live News18 Mobile App -