A complete solar eclipse occurred on Earth (direct broadcasts, photos, videos)
On July 2, South America watched a sunny eclipse. Its full phase was visible in the southeastern part of the Pacific, Chile and Argentina. They looked at the private eclipse in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. This eclipse is a repetition through Saros (the time interval consisting of 223 synodic months, on average approximately 6585.3211 days or 18.03 tropical year) of the complete solar eclipse on June 21, 2001.