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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.
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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)
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