Explanation:
Contrary to the
famous myth, you can't see the
Great Wall of China
from
the Moon ... even during a total
solar eclipse.
But on August 1 you could see the
Moon eclipsing the Sun
from the Great Wall.
In fact, from this location near the Great Wall's western end,
the Moon completely blocked the Sun's
overwhelming disk revealing a shimmering
solar corona and bright
planets in the briefly darkened sky.
A main pass, The Great Wall's
Jiayuguan Fort,
is also silhouetted in the foreground.
The pass is the western-most of the wall's passes and the best
preserved, initially built around 1372 during the Ming dynasty.
The nearby city of Jiayuguan in Gansu
Province was an important stop on
the Silk Road.
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