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Hmmm. True, but the question is misleading. A total solar eclipse is like an enormous rocky cloud that casts a big shadow - so no DIRECT rays of the Sun make it to that part of the Earth. But the Sun's light is scattered by the atmosphere AROUND the area of the eclipse, and the light spreads out INTO the eclipse area. So it never gets darker than twilight; it doesn't get truly dark.

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