People are always curious about solar or lunar eclipse for various reasons, be it the curiosity in having a glance at sky’s different appearance or Sun’s being swallowed look, there are a plethora of reasons for common people to love the day.
Meanwhile, it is a cookie day for scientists, as they can explore the unknown sides of the sun. It is on that day that many secrets of the space can be unveiled.
And all these reasons are enough to cloud the curiosity of people towards upcoming eclipse in the USA that will be occurred on August 21st.
Out of many curious experts, Shadia Habbal, an astronomer, and professor at the University of Hawaii, who has traveled to various parts of the world to witness this phenomenon and learn from it is one of them.
Talking about the same, she was quoted saying, “Every eclipse, or [even just an] eclipse image, has given us new discoveries about the sun, even if you have only a few seconds or a few minutes of totality, you can get something new.”
On this occasion, with the assistance of NASA, she is planning to capture images of the eclipse form five different locations throughout the U.S. in an effort to gather data that could help them understand why the sun’s corona rises to such high temperatures.
“We have found that when [we observe the corona through] different filters, we get temperature maps of the corona, It gives you an idea of the distribution [of heating], but we still don’t know the mechanism but if there is enough here it will tell us something about a concentration of an element that we haven’t seen before,” said Habbal.
Meanwhile, it is assumed that $7.7 million was being spent by both NASA and the National Science Foundation on the eclipse event.
It is already said that many others are proceeding with their own personal interests regarding the eclipse, “Millions of people can walk out on their porch in their slippers and collect world-class data,” said Matt Penn, another astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson who is as much interested as Habbal.
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