Day to night and back again: #Eclipse2017 will help us study the charged particles in Earth's upper atmosphere
The total solar eclipse will have imperceptible effects, such as the sudden loss of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which generates the ionized layer of Earth’s atmosphere, called the ionosphere. This ever-changing region grows and shrinks based on solar conditions, and is the focus of several NASA-funded science teams that will use the eclipse as a ready-made experiment, courtesy of nature.
Source & further reading:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/day-to-night-and-back-again-earth-s-ionosphere-during-the-total-solar-eclipse
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Thanks for sharing Miss Corina...:-)
ReplyDeleteWill you be in the path of totality Corina Marinescu?
ReplyDeleteI would have liked to be there! But i was too late in booking a trip..
ReplyDeleteOh well, there will probably be a dozen very high quality live streams of the event, i hope.
Will you be there?
Nope...no totality for me. But I've seen one before, back in 1999.
ReplyDeleteHa! I think I've seen that one as well. It went over europe. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE1999/TSE1999Map/TSE1999Europe.jpg
ReplyDeleteIt was close to a full eclipse, but not full (for me in the Netherlands). Either that or the Hale–Bopp comet (a few years before) sparked my interest in astronomy :)