A Chinese couple watches the solar eclipse over Zhengzhou
CHINA, Zhengzhou : A Chinese couple watches the solar eclipse over Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province on January 15, 2010.
A solar eclipse that reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk plunged millions of people in Africa and Asia into an eerie semi-darkness, as the spectacle, visible in a roughly 300-kilometre (185-mile) band running 12,900 kilometres (8,062 miles) across the globe, set a record for the longest annular eclipse that will remain unbeaten for more than a thousand years.
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January 18, 2010