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Watch as the moon's shadow races across the US on the first anniversary of last year's total solar eclipse — Earth from space

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On April 8, 2024 , tens of millions of people in the U.S. , Canada and Mexico looked up to the skies to see the moon temporarily block out our home star.

During the event, totality — the period in which the sun is completely obscured — lasted up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds .

From space, the darkest part of the moon's shadow, or umbra, slowly swept across the continent from western Mexico to eastern Canada .

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