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Solar Eclipse: A Composite V
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Solar Eclipse: A Composite View |
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Yesterday [ http://www.skypub.com/eclipses/s980226c.html ], the Moon's shadow reached out [ http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/eclipse/eclipse.htm ] and touched the Earth [ http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/980226/rp.html ], treating a large portion of the Western Hemisphere to an Eclipse of the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970827.html ]. This composite image [ ftp://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/newsmedia/eclipse/COMPOSITE.TXT ] combines pictures of the Sun made from both Earth and space. The central direct image of the solar surface was recorded yesterday by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope [ http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/ ] on board the space based SOHO observatory. It is surrounded by a telescopic picture of the Sun as seen from the island of Aruba during the total eclipse. The surrounding view of the eclipsed Sun reveals the gleaming solar corona [ http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/descriptions/mission/english/ wind_and_corona.html ], visible to ground based observers [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951024.html ] during totality. Such combined images can help connect explosive events and features on the Sun's surface with the corona and solar wind. |
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