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>>16110732
As soon as totality came, those in the gondola began their work. The scientists and their Navy assistants operated cameras. Someone called out the seconds to keep track of how much time had passed. The corona-sketchers began to sketch. Commander Klein, looking outside, would remember the scene succinctly as “a most spectacular sight.” The sky overhead was a blue-black. All around, miles away at the horizon, beyond the limits of the shadow, was a flood of merging orange and red light.

Peterson was ready. He had switched to the reel of special film and was cranking the movie camera steadily. But it was at this moment, when the Moon completely blotted out the Sun, that the extreme cold finally gripped him. He braced himself against the cold and the sudden darkness. The loss of light meant he could no longer see the airship beneath his feet. Stars and planets could now be seen in the sky all around him, as well as a totally eclipsed Sun.
Later, back in the gondola, he would tell others “it was the weirdest sensation I have experienced.” He had lost all sense of time and of place. He had been in an ethereal state. Though a strong wind had been blowing in his face, there were none of the common sensations of motion, no vibrations, no accelerations.

A doctor examined him and discovered he was severely frostbitten across his cheeks and chin and on several fingers, something he had not yet noticed. His thoughts were still about what he had just seen. He was probably also thinking of the fact that, at the moment of the eclipse, when the great cosmic coincidence occurred and he was seeing the white light of the corona alone, he was in a privileged place: He was standing closer to the Sun than any of the millions who were watching from below.

>>15470113
You'd have probes going there in the 80s and a rover in the 90s, maybe a sample return before 2010

>>15422466
>New Moon Map Shows Uranium in Short Supply
https://www.space.com/8644-moon-map-shows-uranium-short-supply.html