NASA sun scientists to study Earth's atmospheric response to eclipse on Monday

“NASA is also studying how the Earth’s atmosphere responds to this decrease in sunlight and how the electrified part of the atmosphere, the ionosphere, how that responds to this decrease in sunlight," said Dr. Nicholeen Viall, a scientist for NASA’s mission PUNCH.

“The corona is the part of the outer atmosphere of the sun that we get to see during totality," said Viall."But eclipses are rare, and NASA wants to study the corona all the time. And so we make artificial eclipses. And so PUNCH is going to be one of the latest, greatest high resolution, sort of looking at the corona in high definition all the time making these artificial eclipses.”Monday's eclipse is something we all can enjoy, even if the First Coast isn’t under totality.

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