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"Nowadays we have a fleet of spacecraft orbiting around the earth and indeed the sun, which can produce artificial eclipses," he said. Read more: www.news.com.au...
Dr Stuart Ryder, from the Australian Astronomical Observatory, will also be heading to Palm Cove for the eclipse. Read more: www.news.com.au...
"Nowadays we have a fleet of spacecraft orbiting around the earth and indeed the sun, which can produce artificial eclipses," he said. Read more: www.news.com.au...
Will his words be taken out of context?
Originally posted by Dr Expired
reply to post by magma
He may have been not quite the full esky when he was said this.
Perhaps already on the way to the bottle shop?
He's talking about spacecraft like SOHO, STEREO and SDO.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by magma
He's talking about spacecraft like SOHO, STEREO and SDO.
The "artificial eclipses" he is talking about are the disks mounted on the satellites to block the sun so the corona can be seen.
Such as Lasco C2:
Originally posted by magma
reply to post by jude11
Where did "fleet" come from?
I only read spaceships in the plural.
Are they now a fleet?
Things happen pretty quick around here....
"Nowadays we have a fleet of spacecraft orbiting around the earth and indeed the sun, which can produce artificial eclipses," he said. Read more: www.news.com.au...
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by jude11
There is a sizable fleet of satellites observing the sun and it's effects.
SDO
STEREO
SOHO
GOES
TRACE
RHESSI
SORCE
Hinode
Yohkoh
etc etc