NASA’s New Solar Scope Is Ready For Balloon Flight

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NASA and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, or KASI, are getting ready to test a new way to see the Sun, high over the New Mexico desert. A pearlescent balloon — large enough to hug a football field — is scheduled to take flight no earlier than Aug. 26, 2019, carrying beneath it a solar scope called BITSE. BITSE is a coronagraph, a kind of telescope that blocks the Sun’s bright face in order to reveal its dimmer atmosphere, called the corona. Short for Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona, BITSE seeks to explain how the Sun spits out the solar wind. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-bitse-solar-scope-ready-for-balloon-flight-new-mexico-coronagraph-solar-wind-eclipse Music credit: "Gear Wheels" by Fabrice Ravel Chapuis [SACEM] from Killer Tracks Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng Scientists: Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy (NASA/GSFC) Nelson Reginald (Catholic University of America) Jeff Newmark (NASA/GSFC) Qian Gong (NASA/GSFC) Producer: Joy Ng (USRA) Writer: Kathalina Tran (SGT) Technical Support: Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET) This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13291 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagra

Published 2019-08-23 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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