NASA Mission from Iceland to Capture Rare Eclipse Data

Two NASA aviators are set to depart from Keflavik airport in Iceland on Wednesday to fly at high altitude along the path of a solar eclipse. Their mission is to capture rare data and images of the sun during the astronomical event.

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‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data

Two aviators will take off from Iceland to take pictures of the sun while flying at high altitude along solar eclipse’s path After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik airport on a western tip of Iceland. They will climb north towards Greenland and then bank to head south on a gently curving course 40 miles (64km) off the Icelandic coast. Their mission can be described as chasing an eclipse, but in reality the eclipse is chasing the...

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