For today’s Geo Quiz ? we ask how long it takes for light to travel the 93 million miles from the Sun to the Earth: The answer is approximately 8 minutes and 19 seconds. The surface of the sun come into focus in some dazzling never before seen images taken by a NASA probe. Anchor Jeb Sharp gets details from John Leibacher, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona.
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