Century's Longest Solar Eclipse
A funeral pyre is seen burning, right foreground, at Manikarnika Ghat, on the banks of the River Ganges, as the solar eclipse begins in Varanasi, India, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Hindu mythology says that the Earth will be destroyed the moment there is no single funeral pyre burning at Manikarnika Ghat.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: AP Photo/Saurabh Das
Eclipse Seen in Parts of India
