'First taste' video released from citizen science project capturing entire U.S. transit of solar eclipse

For most Americans in the path of totality, Aug. 21 was spent in awe of the first transcontinental solar eclipse in 40 years. For the scientists and volunteers at the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) Citizen CATE (Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse) project, the 90-minute eclipse event meant participating in a historic science experiment. The project is the first to collect research-quality observations of the sun's corona during the transit across the ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242904&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click
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Source: NSF News - August 23, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news