# Solar Eclipses – NASA

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- 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Prediction vs. Reality Before a total solar eclipse crossed North America on April 8, 2024, scientists at Predictive Science Inc. of San Diego aimed to foresee what the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, would look like during totality. The predictions help researchers understand the accuracy of their models of the Sun’s corona, which extends along its magnetic field. [...]
- Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse from hundreds of thousands of miles away. The camera suite aboard the LRO usually retrieves high resolution black and white images of the Moon’s surface; these images provide knowledge of polar illumination conditions, identify potential resources, hazards, and enable safe landing site selection. [&#8230;]
- GLOBE Eclipse Challenge: Clouds on Our Solar Powered Earth GLOBE Observer, the mobile app of the Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, gives anyone who wants to (in 120+ GLOBE countries) the opportunity to do NASA science by making environmental observations that complement NASA satellite observations and help scientists study Earth and the global environment. Between 15 March and 15 [...]
- Infiniscope and Eclipse Soundscapes Collaboration Reaches 1,766 Middle School Students Arizona State University’s (ASU) Center for Education Through Exploration, in collaboration with Eclipse Soundscapes, a NASA Citizen Science initiative based at Advanced Research in Inclusion &#038; STEAM Accessibility (ARISA) Lab, came together to empower a cohort of enthusiastic science educators in marginalized communities ahead of the April 8th, 2024 eclipse. “Our goal (in this partnership) [...]
- NASA’s LRO Observes 2024 Solar Eclipse Shadow Editor&#8217;s Note, April 16, 2024: This story has been updated to remove an unclear secondary image and caption. As the Moon blotted out the Sun to viewers across the United States during the April 8 solar eclipse, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image from some 223,000 miles away of the highly anticipated celestial [&#8230;]
- The April 8 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA On April 8, 2024, the Moon’s shadow swept across North America, treating millions to a breathtaking view of a total solar eclipse. As the Moon passed in front of the Sun, it revealed the Sun’s wispy white outer atmosphere — the corona. Pictures of total solar eclipses are beautiful — they capture a moment happening [...]
- More Than 36,000 Volunteers Helped Do NASA Eclipse Science Thank you for helping us out! Over 36,000 people helped do NASA Science during Monday’s total solar eclipse. Together, these volunteers submitted more than 60,000 vital pieces of eclipse data to NASA science projects. More than 30,000 volunteers with the SunSketcher project pointed their smartphones toward the Sun and recorded pictures of Bailey’s beads, flashes of Sunlight [...]
- Seeing Totality On April 8, 2024, a NASA photographer captured the total solar eclipse in Dallas. A small part of North America, from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, saw the total solar eclipse, while all North America and parts of Central America and Europe saw a partial solar eclipse. The next total [&#8230;]
- NASA Wallops Launches 3 Rockets During Eclipse in Virginia Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from NASA&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia April 8, 2024, during the solar eclipse. The rockets launched for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission to study the disturbances in the electrified region of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun. [&#8230;]
- NASA SCoPE Supports Science Activation Projects and Events for 2024 Eclipse The NASA SCoPE (Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education) project aims to facilitate connections between NASA science subject matter experts (SMEs) and educational outreach opportunities aligned with the goals of NASA Science Activation (SciAct) teams. With the 2024 Eclipse offering numerous engagement avenues, SCoPE linked 13 SMEs with various SciAct-supported events held nationwide [...]