Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others.
More than 32 million people in the U.S. alone are destined to be under the moon's central shadow during the total solar eclipse on April 8, and NASA is funding a suite of citizen science projects so the American public can help study the rare celestial event. This is a unique opportunity for scientists to study the effects of a solar eclipse on Earth, which won't be repeated on the same scale in North America until there are twin total solar eclipses in 2044 and 2045.
The Eclipse Soundscapes Project aims to capture the sounds of animals, birds and insects during the eclipse to study how life on Earth reacts to totality. Participants can use an AudioMoth recording device to capture sounds in the environment and help researchers answer one key question: Do nocturnal and diurnal animals act differently or become more or less vocal during a total solar eclipse? The project builds on similar studies conducted during total solar eclipses in 1932 and 2017.
3. Discover the shape of the sun with SunSketcherJust before totality begins, the last drops of sunlight visible around the trailing edge of the moon are called Baily's beads. These are caused when sunlight shines through the valleys and mountains of the moon, revealing its topography. That's already known to astronomers thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. What isn't known is the detailed shape of the solar disk.
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