The Corona of the Sun, shown to the same how can a person see it during an eclipse, but by a green filter
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A careful coordinated dance between Twin Satellite has created the first artificial solar eclipse of placewhich reveals the scoring of sun ‘in extreme detail.
the Propa-3 Missionto be launched in December last year, run by European Space Agency (ESA) and consists of two satellites flying away 150 meters from each other.
One of the satellites, called the occulter, carries a 1.4-metre-wide carbon fibre and plastic disc, which blocks out the sun’s light for the second satellite, the Coronagraph, which is equipped with a camera and scientific instruments. To get the pictures, no one can do more than an error 1-milimeter how to agree with two satellites.
In March, the Satellite Flew autonomously and lined up several hours, taking several seconds of seconds in exlipered days. The scientists of the ESA will cover it to grow full of corona pictures in the sun, the greatest part of its space, reaching the temperature of its million degrees.
“The first time I saw these pictures, it was difficult to trust,” as Damien Galaien Sundoor in ESA. “But soon, it is also a very strong feeling of reaching pride for all that we have done for years.”
The image above shows the visible light of Corona, as it appears in the human eye, but in a green filter.
This image shows light released from electron iron iron in hottest Corona regions
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Proba-3 camera can also look at light frequencies equivalent to specific elements of Corona in the day, showing lightly green steel in the hottest regions of Corona.
“It is clear that we see Corona, who has been done first,” says Galane.
The Corona of the Sun at Polarized White Light, which color artificially visible violet
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The image above appears in Corona in Sun ‘, color artificial display of violet, in white white light. It is captured using a special approach that allows scientists to separate the polarized light of the hot corona from the light scattering the interplanetary aw.
These images are primarily to try that Proba-3 worked correctly, but if the mission is fully correct and run it can make pictures of artificial pictures eclipse Every 19.6 hours, every time the orbits of the ground, including higher exposures for up to six hours.
It can improve our understanding of Corona’s physics in Sun, Galaan says, as well as helps us to better understand the solar solar air.
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