The feat will help us study the 'corona', part of the Sun's atmosphere which creates space weather that can affect us on Earth.
Total Solar Eclipses—in which the sun is blocked from view by the moon—are precious events. After Monday's spectacular, the next worldwide occurrence will not be until late 2026, and the US will not glimpse another until late 2044.Scientists with the European Space Agency don't want to wait, however, and so have come up with a way to make their very own eclipses on a nearly daily basis.
In contrast, Proba-3 will be able to create events lasting up to six hours at a time. These will occur automatically once every 19 hour and 36 minutes, when the craft reach the 'top' of their highly elliptical orbit, which reaches a distance of 37,610 miles from Earth's surface.At this distance, the ESA explains, atmospheric, gravitational and magnetic disturbances from our world are minimized, allowing for clearer measurements of the sun's corona.
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