US EditionESA's Proba-3 Creates First Artificial Solar Eclipse in Space
- In December 2024, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission was launched aboard a PSLV-XL rocket from the launch facility located at Satish Dhawan in India to simulate solar eclipses in space.
- This mission follows Solar Orbiter's earlier discovery of the sun's poles and aims to overcome the rarity and short duration of natural solar eclipses by using two satellites flying 150 meters apart.
- Proba-3's twin satellites, the Occulter and the Coronagraph, performed millimeter-precision maneuvers to align and block the sun's disk, revealing the corona in unprecedented detail.
- Damien Galano expressed great satisfaction with the clarity of the images captured, noting that the mission has successfully completed ten artificial eclipses and is targeting totality periods lasting up to six hours.
- The mission will provide continuous, high-resolution monitoring of the sun's outer atmosphere, enhancing knowledge of the streams of charged particles and large expulsions of plasma that influence space weather and conditions on Earth.
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Probe 3 uses its optical instrument to study the corona very close to the Sun's surface, and also detects fainter features than traditional coronagraphs.
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Here are the first test images of the Sun’s Corona taken by the ESA Proba-3 mission. The images (one in visible light, the other in light emitted by iron atoms where half of their electrons have been stripped off) were taken by the twin Proba-3...
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The European Space Agency's Test-3 mission, with significant Spanish participation, has achieved a milestone: the first artificial eclipse of the Sun in orbit.
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