[Text: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse, Through The Eyes of NASA.]
Once in a lifetime,
all of us to be experiencing this.
It’s a ballon-ar eclipse!
Oh, yeah!
[Text: Excitement reached new heights as the 2023 annular solar eclipse traveled across the U.S.]
[Text: NASA celebrated with public engagement opportunities.]
Now that the annual eclipse is here, the fun has just begun.
So today is the official launch of NASA's Heliophysics Big Year.
Folks, we are moments away from the start of today's annular eclipse.
That’s going out into deep space.
But these rockets... these just launched actually. Will have three launches
during the eclipse studying that upper atmosphere, the ionosphere
kind to see what are the impacts from the Sun.
This is negative Doppler shift
due to the eclipse crossing overhead.
Gina,
I thought I'd have goose bumps but I’m literally shaking. This is crazy.
I know.
It's about the community and being communal
and just the unity of hearing everybody cheer.
The Sun touches us all in so many different ways.
And so the Heliophysics Big Year is going to help us kind of discover
all the ways the Sun touches us scientifically, but in other ways as well.