Overview
- The Moon’s umbra produced a narrow path of totality on Aug. 12, 2026, crossing Arctic Russia, Greenland, Iceland and parts of northern Spain and Portugal with totality lasting up to about 2 minutes 18 seconds.
- Satellites including Meteosat-12, DSCOVR/EPIC and GOES captured the moving dark spot of the umbra from geostationary and deep-space vantage points, giving scientists continuous space‑based views of the shadow’s track.
- Field teams deployed aircraft, scientific balloons and ground observatories to record the corona and atmospheric response, and researchers are now consolidating those datasets for detailed study of coronal structure and short-term space‑weather signals.
- Photographers and citizen observers produced widely shared imagery and time-lapses — including drone footage from central Spain and a NASA photo of the ISS transiting the partially eclipsed Sun — that shaped public engagement and documented viewing conditions.
- Cloudflare Radar analysis found sharp but brief internet-traffic drops in regions with the deepest obscuration, a direct measure of large-scale human attention shifts and a data point officials will use when planning for the longer, meteorologically favorable 2027 eclipse.