On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse.
They oohed and aahed as the feathery streams of the top of the solar atmosphere burst into view.
Except that crowd wasn’t actually in Aruba.
They were thousands of miles away in San Francisco, clustered in front of a screen at a museum called the Exploratorium.
For what might have been the first time in the history of the internet, a solar eclipse was streamed live.
Persons:
wasn’t, Charlie
Organizations:
Technology, NASA, Challenger
Locations:
Aruba, San Francisco