Solar scientists have been preparing for years to study the sun’s corona during a four-minute window during the April 8 total solar eclipse. Expectations are extremely high for this total solar eclipse, as it lasts up to 4 minutes and 27 seconds when the sun is completely covered, making it the longest on land in more than 10 years.
To capture this rare event, two NASA WB-57 jets equipped with special instruments flew just southwest of the moon’s highest point at speeds of 740 kilometers per hour, about a quarter of the speed of the moon’s shadow. Track each other. Solar eclipse. At this speed, the total velocity increases from 4 minutes and 27 seconds to more than 6 minutes when viewed from the ground.
Amir Caspi A shipboard experiment to study the corona using a stable platform to image the eclipse using both a visible-light camera and a high-resolution mid-infrared camera developed by NASA at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado is in charge of . The latter captures light at seven different wavelengths and helps determine which structures in the corona are emitting their own light and which are just scattering light from the Sun’s surface.
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