 Map showing path of solar eclipse which will cross China one week before the start of the Olympic Games.The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will broadcast the total solar eclipse, the first in China this century, live on the Internet.(Xinhua/AFP Graphic)
 View of a total eclipse of the sun. On Aug. 1, the total eclipse will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the moon's umbral shadow will begin in Canada and extend across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia and Mongolia before ending in northern China.(Xinhua/AFP file Photo)
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