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Earth: NASA just announced 
the findings

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from its massive study to
study the total solar eclipse
back in April of 2024. Sun,

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what can you tell us?

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Sun: Well, first of all,

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there's an electrically charged layer of our atmosphere
known as the ionosphere,

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and it moves up and down
every day and night cycle as
the Sun's energy changes.

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Well, during the eclipse, 
we observed that the
ionosphere moved upwards

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as if it were nighttime.

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Earth: Wow. Fascinating.

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Fascinating.

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Sun: That’s actually not
even the coolest part.

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The best thing is that the
way we found this out
was by amateur ham

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radio operators sending
signals to each other.

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There was over 6000 of them
that participated in this event.

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Earth: Wow, that's so cool that that many people came
together to study Earth.

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Sun: That's actually not 
even the only result.

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Over 800 students came together
and launched weather balloons,

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and they discovered that
during the eclipse, ripples

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in our atmosphere formed,
called atmospheric gravity waves.

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Earth: That is so cool.

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Moon: I was also there.

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You're welcome.

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[cheering]