The eclipse will be visible to many people in North America on April 8, 2024.
, will darken skies across the United States. The path of totality, averaging 123 miles wide, runs from southwest Texas to northern New England and includes cities such as San Antonio, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Burlington. will vary depending on viewers' location, ranging from nearly four and a half minutes in Texas to about three and a quarter minutes in Maine.
The five NASA-selected projects are led by researchers at different academic institutions and encourage citizen scientists to participate, too. The experiments will use a variety of instruments, including cameras aboard high-altitude research planes, ham radios and spectrometers. "Scientists have long used solar eclipses to make scientific discoveries," Kelly Korreck, program scientist at NASA Headquarters, said in the statement."They have helped us make the first detection of helium, have given us evidence for the theory of, and allowed us to better understand the sun's influence on Earth's upper atmosphere."
One of the projects selected will use NASA's WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft, which will"chase the eclipse" and capture images of the moon's shadow from an altitude of 50,000 feet above Earth's surface. The plane is equipped with cameras to capture images in infrared and visible light at high resolution and high speed.
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