Solar Eclipse Expedition
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 11:21
in Astronomy & Space
On Friday, August 1, 2008, the moon will pass in front of the sun, blocking the everyday solar surface. When that happens, it gets a million times darker outside, allowing the faint outer layers of the sun to be seen and studied. Scientists Jay Pasachoff and Bryce Babcock of Williams College are leading an expedition to Siberia so as to station themselves and their equipment in the path of totality, which is only hundreds of miles wide in spite of being thousands of miles long.