Landon Curt Noll and James Pleasant (while Claudio DeSanti and Mel Pleasant watch) have just carefully removed the space blanket and are about to remove the down jacket that was insulating the Carter Roberts Vulcanoid Search Platform from the heat of the Gobi desert
Bernice Noll, Barbara Pleasant, and Judith Shakes watch the partial phases of the eclipse using safe filters and eclipse glasses
People setting up at the TravelQuest Eclipse site about a quarter of an hour after first contact