UMaine researchers to travel to Clemson for total solar eclipse, OnlineAthens reports
OnlineAthens, the daily online edition of the Athens Banner-Herald in Georgia, mentioned the University of Maine in an article about the August solar eclipse. The eclipse’s zone of totality will be about 60 to 70 miles wide as the shadow crosses the continental U.S. from Oregon through South Carolina, according to the article. The full shadow takes a path across South Carolina, and Clemson University is expecting a crowd of 35,000 to 50,000 on its campus for the Continental-American Telescope Eclipse experiment, the article states. Scientists from UMaine and Montana State will be in Clemson to launch a balloon up 100,000 feet with a live video stream showing Earth and the eclipse at the time, according to Jim Melvin, the public information director for the College of Science at Clemson University. UMaine also was mentioned in Clemson University’s news release about its “Eclipse Over Clemson” viewing party.