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Matt Liddy and Ben Spraggon

'It's like nothing else': Solar eclipse inspires awe

Explore the best photos as the Moon casts a swathe of the US into darkness.

"Twenty hours, three drivers, four adults, two six-year-old twins — it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience!"

"Wow, Earth's two largest satellites — the Moon and the ISS — pass across the Sun."

"It's like nothing else you will ever see or ever do. It can be religious. It makes you feel insignificant, like you're just a speck in the whole scheme of things."

"It just kind of tickled you all over — it was wonderful — and I wish I could do it again."

Voila! The eclipse shadow from [the International] Space Station. No words needed.

"It was incredible. It was literally cold and dark. The light was blue. It wasn't eerie, it was just different."

"It was a very primal experience... I've seen other really magnificent things, but there is nothing, nothing like this. Absolutely nothing."

"It's really, really, really, really awesome."

"When totality is over and the normal world returns, I feel an incredible loss and a yearning to stand in that familiar shadow again."

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