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7月22日上午，中国和印度部分地区迎来了壮观的日全食。随着日食的开始，中印两国部分地区陷入黑暗之中。此次日全食是21世纪持续时间最长的一次，当地时间凌晨5点28分，印度首先迎来日全食。根据天文学家的预测，此次日全食持续时间将超过6分钟。太平洋地区是观测此次日全食的最佳地点，中国和印度将可以观察到完整的日全食过程。[文章版权 禁止转载:考试与评价 m2l| 5ow3NOiZPw FroG]
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A total solar eclipse began its flight on Wednesday across a narrow path of Asia, where it was expected to darken the skies for millions of people for more than six minutes in some places.
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The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century will be visible in a roughly 250 km-wide (155 miles) corridor, according to the US space agency NASA, as it travels half the globe and passes through India and China.
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The eclipse began at 5:28 am local time (2358 GMT) in India and will last up to a maximum of 6 minutes, 39 seconds when it hits the Pacific Ocean, according to NASA.
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Eclipses allow earth-bound scientists a rare glimpse at the sun's corona, the gases surrounding the sun.
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Starting on India's west coast north of financial capital Mumbai, it took in the ancient Hindu holy city of Varanasi on the Ganges river.
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Tens of thousands of people snaked through the narrow lanes of Varanasi and gathered for a dip in the Ganges, an act considered to lead to salvation from the cycle of life and death.
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Amid chanting of Hindu hymns, men, women and children waded into the river with folded hands and prayed to the sun as it emerged in an overcast sky.
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"We have come here because our elders told us this is the best time to improve our after-life," said Bhailal Sharma, a villager from central India, who came to Varanasi with a group of about 100 people.
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The eclipse was due to sweep through Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and China's financial hub Shanghai, before heading to the Pacific.
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"In the 21st century this is the longest," said Harish Bhatt, dean at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
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"This is indeed quite an important event for scientific experiments. Its long duration provides you an opportunity to make very complicated, complex experiments."
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