Solar Eclipse Animation

Credits

• Animator

  • Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]

• Producer

  • Genna Duberstein (ADNET Systems, Inc.) [Lead]

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    ID: 12165 Produced Video

    2016 Total Solar Eclipse Live Shots

    March 3rd, 2016
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Solar Eclipse Live Shot Roll-ins || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.9 KB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.webmhd.webm (1280x720) [23.6 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264.mov (1280x720) [499.9 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] ||

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    ID: 13668 Produced Video

    Cómo ver un eclipse solar de forma segura

    Dec. 10th, 2020
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Nunca es seguro mirar directamente al Sol, incluso si está parcialmente oscurecido. Al observar un eclipse parcial, debes usar gafas de eclipse en todo momento si deseas mirar el Sol, o utilizar un método indirecto alternativo. Esto también se aplica durante un eclipse total hasta el momento en que el Sol está total y completamente bloqueado por la Luna.Durante el breve período de tiempo en que la Luna oscurece por completo al Sol, el llamado período de totalidad, es seguro mirar directamente al astro rey, pero es crucial que sepas cuándo desviar la vista y volver a ponerte los lentes de eclipse.Primero, lo más importante: busca información local sobre el momento en que comenzará y terminará el eclipse total.Segundo: el Sol también proporciona pistas importantes sobre cuándo la totalidad está a punto de comenzar y terminar. ||

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    ID: 12903 Produced Video

    Discovering the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere

    July 25th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface.Temperatures in the corona — the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere — spike upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, while just 1,000 miles below, the underlying surface simmers at a balmy 10,000 F. How the Sun manages this feat remains one of the greatest unanswered questions in astrophysics; scientists call it the coronal heating problem. A new, landmark mission, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — scheduled to launch no earlier than Aug. 11, 2018 — will fly through the corona itself, seeking clues to its behavior and offering the chance for scientists to solve this mystery.From Earth, as we see it in visible light, the Sun’s appearance — quiet, unchanging — belies the life and drama of our nearest star. Its turbulent surface is rocked by eruptions and intense bursts of radiation, which hurl solar material at incredible speeds to every corner of the solar system. This solar activity can trigger space weather events that have the potential to disrupt radio communications, harm satellites and astronauts, and at their most severe, interfere with power grids.Above the surface, the corona extends for millions of miles and roils with plasma, gases superheated so much that they separate into an electric flow of ions and free electrons. Eventually, it continues outward as the solar wind, a supersonic stream of plasma permeating the entire solar system. And so, it is that humans live well within the extended atmosphere of our Sun. To fully understand the corona and all its secrets is to understand not only the star that powers life on Earth, but also, the very space around us.Read more on NASA.gov. ||

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    ID: 12693 Produced Video

    A Total Solar Eclipse Revealed Solar Storms 100 Years Before Satellites

    Aug. 17th, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Eclipses set the stage for historic science. NASA is taking advantage of the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse by funding 11 ground-based scientific studies. As our scientists prepare their experiments for next week, we're looking back to an historic 1860 total solar eclipse, which many think gave humanity our first glimpse of solar storms — called coronal mass ejections — 100 years before scientists first understood what they were.Scientists observed these eruptions in the 1970s during the beginning of the modern satellite era, when satellites in space were able to capture thousands of images of solar activity that had never been seen before. But in hindsight, scientists realized their satellite images might not be the first record of these solar storms. Hand-drawn records of an 1860 total solar eclipse bore surprising resemblance to these groundbreaking satellite images.Eclipse archive imagery from: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/hao-eclipse-archive.php ||

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    ID: 12061 Produced Video

    Eclipse Safety

    Aug. 7th, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Learn how to watch the 2017 American Eclipse safely. || BillIngalls_16x9.jpg (1153x649) [267.3 KB] || BillIngalls_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [227.9 KB] || BillIngalls_1024x576_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || BillIngalls_1024x576_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.1 KB] ||

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    ID: 12179 Produced Video

    NASA Jets Chase The Total Solar Eclipse

    July 25th, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    For most viewers, the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse will last less than two and half minutes. But for one team of NASA-funded scientists, the eclipse will last over seven minutes. Their secret? Following the shadow of the Moon in two retrofitted WB-57F jet planes. Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his team will use two of NASA’s WB-57F research jets to chase the darkness across America on Aug. 21. Taking observations from twin telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes, Caspi will capture the clearest images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — to date and the first-ever thermal images of Mercury, revealing how temperature varies across the planet’s surface. ||

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