NASA On Air: NASA Previews 2017 Total Solar Eclipse (11/11/2015)
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- Howard Joe Witte
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LEAD: NASA scientists and astronomers are already planning for the first total solar eclipse for the United States in 38 years.
1. On August 21, 2017, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth in an alignment that will cast the moon's shadow onto Earth.
2. A dark shadow of the moon, 170 miles wide, will sweep across the U.S. over the course of one-and-a-half hours.
3. People in cities lying within the narrow path of the shadow (red line in the video) will experience an eerie sense of twilight as day turns to night and back to day again within roughly 2-2.5 minutes.
TAG: Solar astronomers will use the solar eclipse to study the outer atmosphere of the sun.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editor
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Producer
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET Systems, Inc.) [Lead]
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