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Artificial Solar Eclipse - Proba 3
December 19 , 2024
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- With Proba-3, the European Space Agency creates an artificial solar eclipse by bringing two satellites together instead of waiting for natural solar eclipses.
- This artificial eclipse will be used to study the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona.
- The corona is the sun's outermost layer. It still remains one of the most mysterious parts of our star.
- Although the sun's surface glows at about 5,500°C, the corona's temperature goes as high as 1-3 million°C.
- Normally, the corona is visible when it is eclipsed totally during a total solar eclipse because the moon blocks some light from the sun.
- Unfortunately, these natural phenomena occur rarely and for just short periods.
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