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Composite Image Of 2010 Eclipse
Credits: Williams College Eclipse Expedition - Jay M. Pasachoff, Muzhou Lu, and Craig Malamut; SOHO's LASCO image courtesy of NASA/ESA; solar disk image from NASA's SDO; compositing by Steele Hill, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. For a larger version of this image please go here. |
by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 16, 2010
A solar eclipse photo (gray and white) from the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific (July 11, 2010) was embedded with an image of the Sun's outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on the SOHO spacecraft and shown in red false color.
LASCO uses a disk to blot out the bright sun and the inner corona so that the faint outer corona can be monitored and studied.
Further, the dark silhouette of the moon was covered with an image of the Sun taken in extreme ultraviolet light at about the same time by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
The composite brings out the correlation of structures in the inner and outer corona.
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