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The Exploratorium eclipse team drives back to Urumqi with our partners from XJTV after the live broadcast. It was a hot fourteen-hour drive, but you can enjoy it as a time-compressed video of of the journey to the Weizi Gorge (Yiwu) along China's cloud-covered Silk Road.
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