UMaine team prepares to document total eclipse from the moon’s point of view

Apr. 7—ORONO — While almost everyone else will be looking up to watch Monday's eclipse, a team of University of Maine professors and students will launch a high-altitude balloon to give the public a view looking down — from 90,000 feet above the Earth. The high-altitude ballooning, or HAB, team will livestream the eclipse on YouTube, and the vantage point will be as though the viewer is …