NASA News: How Scientists Predicted Corona’s Appearance During Aug. 21, 2017, Total Solar Eclipse
It was Aug. 14, 2017, just one week before the Moon would cross paths with the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow across the United States.
The entire country buzzed with anticipation for the fleeting chance to see the corona, the Sun’s tenuous outer atmosphere.
But the wait was uniquely nerve-wracking for a group of scientists at Predictive Science Inc., a private research company in San Diego:
They had just published a prediction of what the corona would look like on Aug. 21, the day of the total solar eclipse
How would their prediction — the result of a complex numerical model and tens of hours of computing — compare to the real thing?
my 2 cents:
Wow... impressive...
A really nice Sun's magnetic field visualisation provided by NASA:
And by the way:
If you find the disgusting comment from @cheetah below this post then think about to mute it for the future. The programmers did a really bad job on it...
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