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How do these features in the solar corona,
this atmosphere of the Sun,

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how do those change?

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Sometimes they escape from the Sun.
Sometimes they go back towards the Sun.

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And that region is hard to really study.

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And we're going to get this little glimpse
from Earth.

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My name is Laura Peticolas,

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and I am the principal investigator
for the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project.

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So, what's really unique about the eclipse,
especially one like the one coming up,

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is that it's covering
a very large path on land.

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And that means a lot of observers

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can be viewing it
over an extended period of time.

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In this case, we are able to take images
along that entire path in ways

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that you can't just do from one location
on Earth or one location in space.

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And that gives us this really unique
dataset.

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In 2017, we made a movie of all the images.

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This time, we know how to
make the movie more dynamic

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and we're going to have more exposures,
meaning that we'll be able

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to see more of the features
in the solar corona than we were before.

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And, although it's maybe not
what one might think in terms of a movie,

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in terms of people and a plot, 
but for us solar physicists,

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it is very exciting to see

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even the smallest changes in the corona
at the timescale we're going to get.