US EditionA Small Satellite Could See a Perfect Solar Eclipse Every Month
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 10 – The MESOM mission aims to create 80 artificial solar eclipses lasting nearly 50 minutes each to improve solar corona studies and space weather understanding, scientists said.
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A Small Satellite Could See a Perfect Solar Eclipse Every Month
Why wait for rare solar eclipses? ESA's Proba mission can now create an artificial solar eclipse once a day. Now, a UK-led mission could do the same trick, but using the Moon's shadow to provide a 48-minute total eclipse once every lunar orbit (29.6 days). Named the Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM), the small spacecraft would align its orbit with the Moon, blocking the Sun perfectly, allowing observations of the solar atmosphere.
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