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Okay.

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So a solar eclipse happens

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when the moon moves
directly between the earth and the sun.

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And with

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an annular eclipse,
the moon is a little bit farther away

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than it ordinarily might be.

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So it doesn't quite cover
the entire disk of the sun.

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And it leaves this ring, shape or annulus

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behind.

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And we call it an annular solar eclipse.

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sure.

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You want to make sure that you're
using these special safety glasses?

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These special solar viewing

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glasses that you can pick up
at public libraries and other locations.

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But you want to make sure you have those
on any time you're looking at the eclipse.

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Otherwise,
you can have some serious eye damage.

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If you don't have a pair of these
these solar glasses.

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You can take a simple piece of paper
and poke a little hole in it

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and hold it up over the sidewalk.

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And it'll actually project an image
of the sun down onto that surface.

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And you can view it that way.

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If you don't have a piece of paper,
you can actually just use your hand.

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You can make a little bitty hole
or look you can

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look and see a small hole in in
between your fingers and you hold that up

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over the sidewalk, over your other hand,
over a pretty much anything,

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and actually create that pinhole
camera effect just using your hand.

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Oh, certainly.

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My my favorite example
are the sounding rockets

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that they're going to be launching from
White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

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They're going to be launching one
just before the eclipse, one

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during the eclipse, and our other one
just after the eclipse.

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And measuring things

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like atmospheric temperature,
the number of electrons that they detect

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in their instruments
as they move through the sky.

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And they're going to be studying
how the ionosphere, a charged particle

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layer in the upper atmosphere
changes with time because the solar input,

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the solar, the sunlight moving into
the atmosphere is lower during an eclipse.

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So seeing how that changes with time
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scientific interest.

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Certainly

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for the eclipse in April,
the moon is actually going to be

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just a little bit closer to us than it is
than it is tomorrow.

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And so it will perfectly cover
the disk of the sun

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and we'll see what's called a total
solar eclipse.

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Now, in this case,
the the atmosphere of the sun,

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the sorry, the surface of the sun
is completely covered.

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And all we're going to be able to see
is this wispy outermost

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layer of of the sun's atmosphere
called the corona.

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And it looks like crazy hair moving away
from moving away from the disk of the sun.

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We never, ever

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get to see that
except during a total eclipse.

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So it's a very special occasion,
and I hope folks make time to go out

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and actually take a look at it.

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I'm very excited, both as a scientist

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and as and as a as a person,
as a regular person.

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I mean, the science opportunities
are we're really excited about the science

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opportunities that we've got lined up
with, of course, the sounding rockets.

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But we're also going to be having
instrumentation on on high altitude

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airplanes, taking all sorts
of measurements of the sun.

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But from a personal perspective, I

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this is going to be my first
total eclipse.

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And I'm really excited to get out
and actually experience it firsthand.

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I know that when the eclipse is happening,
then, of course, the lighting changes.

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I mean, that kind of makes sense.

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But because of that lighting change,
the temperature comes down.

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Birds
actually morning birds start to chirp.

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I'm looking forward
to hearing the robins chirping.

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Animals tend to get ready for bed
and so on.

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And it's just a
it's a singular moment in time

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where you get to see something along with,
of course, you know, several billion

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of your other of your closest friends.

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You get to see this firsthand, this unique

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opportunity, firsthand.

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Well, first, go out and watch it.

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Go out and actually experience
this for yourself.

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These things don't happen all that often.

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They happen fairly regularly, of course,

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but most of the time they happen out over
the oceans.

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It's rare when they actually happen over
populated areas.

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So take the opportunity
and go out and witness this.

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There's going to be a number
of number of events at different places

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throughout the country,
mostly along the path path of the eclipse,

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where you can go out and interact
with folks from NASA and educators

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and so on to actually really engage
in this particular opportunity.

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And finally, again, I'll point
back to the citizen science opportunities.

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These are events and phone apps
and a number of other things

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where you're actually able to help help
NASA's scientists take data,

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you know, measure temperatures
and talk about things like how how the

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eclipse made you feel
and what you witnessed in the behavior

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of animals and other people
and the atmosphere and so on.

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It's a great opportunity to get involved.

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We have a lot of information out there.

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The easiest place to go is go dot nasa.gov
slash eclipse.

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You can also find more information
about activities.

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How to build, how to build
a pinhole camera that I mentioned earlier

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and a whole bunch of other activities
that you and children

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and pretty much anyone can participate in.

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So again that's go dot NASA's dot gov

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slash eclipse as well as on social
media with at NASA's sun.