NASAWhy is the solar corona so much hotter than the surface of the sun? Michelle Thaler says that's a mystery that scientists haven't solved.
Author's Note: This is the third in a five-part journey I am taking across the solar eclipse "path of totality." That's the roughly 70-mile-wide band that will stretch across America – from Oregon to South Carolina on Aug. 21. Along that lucky strip of the continent, eclipse viewers will get a rare and brief look at the sun…in total darkness.
NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller is hoping for clear, smoke-free skies above eastern Oregon on August 21st. That's where she'll be at about 10:25 a.m. Monday when the sun will temporarily go black, birds will stop chirping, and a total solar eclipse... will drift by overhead.
I spoke to Thaller about what we can expect to see during the eclipse. She also told me:
- why scientists are so fascinated by the mysterious 'solar corona,'
- how an eclipse helped Albert Einstein prove relativity,
- and, finally, the one town in southern Illinois that's hitting the U.S. eclipse 'jackpot' in the next decade
Check out our debrief:
Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
">NASAWhy is the solar corona so much hotter than the surface of the sun? Michelle Thaler says that's a mystery that scientists haven't solved.
Author's Note: This is the third in a five-part journey I am taking across the solar eclipse "path of totality." That's the roughly 70-mile-wide band that will stretch across America – from Oregon to South Carolina on Aug. 21. Along that lucky strip of the continent, eclipse viewers will get a rare and brief look at the sun…in total darkness.
NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller is hoping for clear, smoke-free skies above eastern Oregon on August 21st. That's where she'll be at about 10:25 a.m. Monday when the sun will temporarily go black, birds will stop chirping, and a total solar eclipse... will drift by overhead.
I spoke to Thaller about what we can expect to see during the eclipse. She also told me:
- why scientists are so fascinated by the mysterious 'solar corona,'
- how an eclipse helped Albert Einstein prove relativity,
- and, finally, the one town in southern Illinois that's hitting the U.S. eclipse 'jackpot' in the next decade
Check out our debrief:
Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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