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title: What Eclipses Have Done for Science — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/what-eclipses-have-done-for-science/
date: 2017-08-16
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# What Eclipses Have Done for Science

Eclipses have been aiding scientists throughout history, from helping measure the width of the Atlantic ocean and verifying Einstein’s theory of general relativity, to allowing NASA to attempt a thermal mapping of Mercury.