Nasa jet to monitor solar eclipse from 50,000ft in the air in effort to uncover sun's secrets

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Nasa jet to chase solar eclipse in search of Sun's secrets The TelegraphThis may be one of the most stunning parts of a total eclipse The Washington Post‘You're hit with a slam of shadow': Nasa's air mission to capture rare eclipse data The GuardianHow ESA mimics and models the 2026 total solar eclipse European Space AgencyNASA will chase the Aug.

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Nasa jet to monitor solar eclipse from 50,000ft in the air in effort to uncover sun's secrets.

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Nasa is dispatching a specialised research aircraft to pursue the Moon's shadow as darkness sweeps across the northern hemisphere during today's solar eclipse.The WB-57 high-altitude jet will fly over Iceland, where totality will be visible at an altitude of 50,000ft, well above the clouds, water vapour and atmospheric turbulence that might otherwise compromise observations.Its target is the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere stretching millions of miles into space that ordinarily remains invisible against the overwhelming brightness of the solar surface.By tracking the eclipse path at 460mph, the aircraft will be able to observe the corona for close to three minutes, compared with just over two minutes available to ground-based watchers.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Concealed within the jet's nose cone is an array of four cameras designed to produce high-resolution imagery of the corona across multiple wavelengths of both visible and infrared light, recording the dynamic...

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