.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have blown away folks because opportunity out of thoughts. The 1st file of one, maintained on a clay tablet discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is felt from its grow older and also site to illustrate either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Fabulous illustrations for eclipses include the Sunlight being consumed by dogs, frogs or dragons. The truth is a lot more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon moving between Sun and also Earth in such a way that throws a darkness on aspect of The planet's surface. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States and Canada on April 8th, so rare?