Overview
- The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, tracked from Greenland and Iceland to northern Spain and a sliver of Portugal, with totality lasting about two minutes at sites such as León and roughly two minutes and 18 seconds near Iceland.
- Geostationary and deep-space satellites including Meteosat, GOES and DSCOVR/EPIC captured time-lapse views of the moon’s narrow, fast-moving umbral shadow, showing the path of totality measured at roughly 180 miles wide and traveling at over 1,000 mph across the surface.
- NASA-supported teams deployed WB-57 chase aircraft and high-altitude scientific balloons to image the Sun’s corona in visible and infrared wavelengths and to sample short-term atmospheric changes, and those teams are now processing data for formal release.
- Professional and amateur photographers produced widespread high-resolution material—highlighted by Lucie McCormick’s 4K drone time-lapse over Spain and Joel Kowsky’s confirmed image of the ISS transiting the eclipsed Sun—which have been shared by NASA and major outlets.
- Cloudflare Radar analysis reported synchronized dips in HTTP traffic of about 15–30% in countries on or near the path of totality, a behavioral effect that shows collective attention briefly shifted offline and that analysts will monitor alongside incoming scientific results.