Darkness and awe swept across southern Missouri and Illinois on Monday as the moon passed between Earth and the sun on Monday.
Total solar eclipses occur every year or two, but it is exceedingly rare for the paths of two of them to intersect only a handful of years apart, as they have in a swath of the bistate.
See photographs from the eclipse by St. Louis Public Radio's Eric Lee, Cristina Fletes-Mach and Brian Munoz, with contributions from the Michael Thomas and the Belleville News-Democrat's Joshua Carter.
Brian Munoz
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Eric Lee
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Cristina Fletes-Mach
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Joshua Carter
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Belleville News-Democrat
Eric Lee
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Eric Lee
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Cristina Fletes-Mach
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Brian Munoz
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Brian Munoz
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Eric Lee
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Brian Munoz
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Brian Munoz
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Eric Lee
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Cristina Fletes-Mach
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St. Louis Public Radio
Joshua Carter/Belleville News-Democrat
Brian Munoz
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St. Louis Public Radio
Eric Lee
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Eric Lee
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Cristina Fletes-Mach
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St. Louis Public Radio
Brian Munoz
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Michael B. Thomas
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Michael B. Thomas
Eric Lee
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Eric Lee
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