Scientists with the European Space Agency will soon use satellites to create artificial solar eclipses so they can study the sun’s corona.
Last month, the European Space Agency launched two satellites into orbit from India that will soon begin working together to create solar eclipses. The mission, called Proba-3, aims to help us better understand the sun’s outermost atmosphere, known as its corona — the thin ring of light that can be seen around the moon when it eclipses the sun.Once the two satellites are roughly 60,000 kilometres above Earth, ESA said, they will separate and lock into position 150 metres from one another.
Each satellite is cube-shaped and less than 1.5 metres wide. One satellite will hold a circular disk which acts as an artificial moon, casting its shadow down to the other satellite. The only time to view the corona clearly is during solar eclipses, but natural ones are rare and may only last a few minutes.
The primary goals are to understand why the corona is so much hotter than the sun’s surface and to better understand coronal mass ejections.
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