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English: NASA Goddard heliophysicists Jeff Newmark (left) and Nat Gopalswamy (right), who is holding the polarization camera he used to gather 50 images during the total solar eclipse in August 2017, plan to fly a new coronagraph on a balloon-borne mission next year.
NASA Goddard scientists are demonstrating a new instrument on a scientific balloon to measure critical properties of the solar wind — the Sun's constant outflow of material — including density, temperature and electron speed. BITSE — short for the Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona — will fly aboard a high-altitude scientific balloon from Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, next fall. Understanding the source of the solar wind can help improve space weather forecasts, particularly in the near-Earth environment where changes can sometimes interfere with radio communications or GPS. The team tested this observational technique from the ground during the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse. |
| Date | Taken on 9 August 2018, 10:49:02 |
| Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/35278629@N08/45000735705/ |
| Author | NASA/GSFC/Bill Hrybyk |
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