Monday, August 14, 2017

Day to night and back again: Eclipse2017 will help us study the charged particles in Earth's upper atmosphere - UNIVERSE


The total solar eclipse will have imperceptible effects, such as the sudden loss of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which generates the ionized layer of Earth’s atmosphere, called the ionosphere. This ever-changing region grows and shrinks based on solar conditions, and is the focus of several NASA-funded science teams that will use the eclipse as a ready-made experiment, courtesy of nature.

Source & further reading:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/day-to-night-and-back-again-earth-s-ionosphere-during-the-total-solar-eclipse

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