Friday's Total Solar Eclipse at the North Pole Extremely Rare

Solar Eclipse public photo from NASA

While I was reviewing my previously posted article for today, I re-discovered something I'd forgotten: the partial solar eclipse last April was visible only in southern parts of the world, such as Australia.

I didn't realize something last spring when I wrote that article because I hadn't yet learned something else: Friday's total solar eclipse will be seen at the exact opposite end of the earth. Isn't that fascinating?

I learned that Friday's solar eclipse will be visible at the North Pole only recently. And according to the article I read that in, that is very rare. I'll share that article below as well.

This week, rather than re-writing the ton of information I've already researched and written on solar eclipses, I'm re-sharing those articles. So please take a few moments to click over to the articles I'm sharing this week to review and remember what we've learned previously (I'm amazed at how much I'd forgotten):

Here is my article about last April's solar eclipse:

• Solar eclipse on Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Here is the article I discovered just this past week. It has some really fascinating information about the rarity of Friday's eclipse:

• Passover Blood Moon Preceded by Exceedingly Rare Solar Eclipse Prompts Global Call to Prayer

Does it feel to you like for Friday's total solar eclipse at the North Pole it's as if God is looking down over the whole earth? 

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