SunSketcher Solar Eclipse Project Tutorial NASA is calling on citizen astronomers in the U.S. to help it learn more about our sun.
Recommended Videos It’s using April’s solar eclipse as an opportunity to conduct a special experiment in which millions of people can participate.
SunSketcher will help the American space agency learn more about the shape of the sun, which, it notes, is not perfectly round. During the total solar eclipse on April 8, volunteers who download the SunSketcher app will be asked to use a smartphone to capture views of the celestial event that will trace tiny slivers of sunlight streaking through the valleys on the lunar surface.
The SunSketcher science team will combine volunteers’ images with precision maps of the moon collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to accurately measure the sun’s size and shape, the agency said.
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