CHASING THE ECLIPSE PROJECT (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

CHASING THE ECLIPSE PROJECT

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The SwRI-led team processed data from telescopes on WB-57 jets during the Chasing the Eclipse Project 1 in 2017 to help reveal key details about infrared emissions from the Sun’s corona. These wavelengths have only rarely been measured previously and may help us understand how the solar atmosphere reaches temperatures hundreds of times hotter than the solar surface.

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Southwest Research Institute/NASA/Daniel B. Seaton

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