A Total Solar Eclipse Revealed Solar Storms 100 Years Before Satellites

Описание: Eclipses set the stage for historic science. NASA is taking advantage of the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse by funding 11 ground-based scientific studies. As our scientists prepare their experiments for next week, we're looking back to an historic 1860 total solar eclipse, which many think gave humanity our first glimpse of solar storms -- called coronal mass ejections -- 100 years before scientists first understood what they were.

Scientists observed these eruptions in the 1970s during the beginning of the modern satellite era, when satellites in space were able to capture thousands of images of solar activity that had never been seen before. But in hindsight, scientists realized their satellite images might not be the first record of these solar storms. Hand-drawn records of an 1860 total solar eclipse bore surprising resemblance to these groundbreaking satellite images.

Eclipse archive imagery from: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/hao-eclipse-...

Music credits: 'Electricity Wave' by Jean-Francois Berger [SACEM] and 'Solar Winds' by Ben Niblett [PRS], Jon Cotton [PRS]

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