Overview
- The Spanish government ordered soldiers from Regiment "Palma 47" to patrol Mallorca from August 10–14 to help enforce checkpoints, road closures and on‑the‑ground crowd control ahead of the totality on August 12.
- Regional police will deploy hundreds of officers plus helicopter patrols and checkpoints at Tramuntana access points while hospitals and sea rescue services move to heightened readiness for medical and maritime incidents.
- Major tour operators have moved passenger transfers two to three hours earlier to avoid road congestion even though the airport operator AENA has said scheduled flights will run as normal.
- Officials designated about 350 official observation sites to spread visitors away from narrow viewpoints, banned parking on dry vegetation and warned of very high wildfire risk and penalties for unsafe behaviour.
- ESA and NASA are mounting coordinated science operations on August 12, including aircraft that will follow the Moon's shadow and complementary Solar Orbiter observations to study the solar corona during totality.