Les Johnson of NASA spoke to school children and college students on Friday and will be speaking in Dyess over the weekend.
“I am at that stage in my career where I want to inspire that next generation and kind of payback,” Les Johnson of NASA said. “Seeing the excitement in the eyes about science right”?
Johnson, an eclipse scientist, was at Arkansas State Friday speaking to schoolchildren and college students about the total solar eclipse. Northeast Arkansas News was able to catch up with him and talk a little bit about the eclipse. Johnson says knowledge of the eclipse is important. “We have to understand eclipses to do our jobs in the other parts of the field. For me to build a spacecraft that uses the sun for propulsion to fly these coronagraphs, I had to learn a lot about how to do an eclipse,” Johnson said.
Total eclipses travel the Earth every 18 months or so. But more often than not, nobody notices. “Because eclipses happen all the time but usually they’re over the ocean and there’s nobody there to see it, right, except a few ships. I’ll also be talking about why it’s important to study the sun,” Johnson said.
Johnson also spoke on the rarity of seeing two eclipses in a relatively short amount of time. “I think the unique thing about this is the proximity to so many people and the fact that here in North America, in the United States in particular, it’s two in close succession for us, right?” Johnson said.
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