Resource material to cover the total solar eclipse which will occur on August 11th, 1999. Includes new animation sequences to show the mechanics of the eclipse, and what to expect; various footage of the Sun, archive footage of eclipses and observers; 1960s ESRO sounding rocket experimentation; the Heos solar observation satellites, the COS-B satellite, the TD1-A satellite; contemporary European satellites to monitor the Sun - SOHO [launch, animations and images], Ulysses [launch, animations, cleanroom footage, images], Cluster [animations]; views of the Earth from space.

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