2017 Solar Eclipse

NRECA's Mike Lynch captured this shot of the total eclipse from Taylors, S.C. (Photo By: Mike Lynch)

In Lathrop, Mo., the flea market gave way to parking for eclipse watchers. (Photo By: Victoria A. Rocha)

John Riediger, an engineering consultant for Platte-Clay EC, prepares a weather balloon with four cameras for launch 120,000 feet into space. (Photo By: Victoria A. Rocha)

As it rains outside, Ed Crowley, a Platte-Clay EC engineer, checks the weather on his phone from inside a big barn. (Photo By: Victoria A. Rocha)

Catherine and Jonathan Horowitz watch the eclipse from a Platte-Clay EC staffer’s farm in Missouri. (Photo By: Victoria A. Rocha)

NRECA's Mike Lynch captured this shot of the total eclipse from Taylors, S.C. (Photo By: Mike Lynch)

The National Air and Space Museum’s "STEM in 30" crew sets up on the lawn on the South Valley Middle School in Liberty, Mo. The school was in the path of totality. (Photo By: Cheryl Barnes/PCEC)

South Valley Middle School students mingle with "STEM in 30" host Marty Kelsey during the live total solar eclipse webcast. (Photo By: Cheryl Barnes/PCEC)

Platte-Clay provided a bucket truck for aerial cutaway shots of student reaction during the total solar eclipse live webcast. (Photo By: Cheryl Barnes/PCEC)

Chase Tyne (left), Platte-Clay apprentice journey lineman, watches as Jared Wilson secures the camera to the bucket. In the background is Rick Wiloughby, part of the camera crew. (Photo By: Cheryl Barnes/PCEC)

Rick Wiloughby, camera operator, and Chase Tyne, Platte-Clay journeyman lineman, discuss the cutaway aerial shot after the rains passed through. (Photo By: Cheryl Barnes/PCEC)