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"It's one of those things you can't miss," said Oscar Lopez, 26,
who travelled from Mexico City to the southern Mexican city of
Campeche to see the eclipse. "It's amazing. We're really lucky
as human beings to be able to experience these things."
U.S. space agency NASA said the eclipse was following a path
from the U.S. Pacific Northwest over California, Nevada, Utah,
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, crossing over parts of Mexico,
Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia and
Brazil before ending at sunset in the Atlantic Ocean.
Lopez and his family were among hundreds of spectators wearing
sunglasses who gathered to watch the moon slowly glide across
the face of the morning sun in Campeche, a picturesque
colonial-era city on the western edge of the Yucatan peninsula.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between
Earth and the sun at a time when the moon is at or close to its
farthest point from our planet. It does not completely obscure
the face of the sun, unlike in a total solar eclipse.
Instead it creates the image of a brilliant ring on the outlines
of the sun surrounding the dark disc of the moon.
Isaac Solis, 26, a video editor in Mexico, chose the eclipse to
propose to his 27-year-old girlfriend Alondra de Jesus Aguilar
as they looked up at the sun in Campeche.
"I wasn't expecting it at all," Aguilar said. "I feel really
happy. And really sure I want to spend my life with him."
(Reporting by Alberto Fajardo; Additional reporting by Will
Dunham; Writing by Dave Graham; editing by Diane Craft)
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