The solar eclipse is coming. But, on the big day, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will only be able to see the partial solar eclipse
The astronauts of NASA they are preparing to see the solar eclipse total Monday (8). There are currently 13 people in space: seven of them are on the International Space Station (ISS), a more than privileged place to observe the phenomenon.
“As you may know, NASA has scheduled a solar eclipse during our increment,” joked Expedition 70/71 astronaut Michael Barratt. He, astronauts Matthew Dominick, Jennette Epps and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, along with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, will have three chances to see the eclipse, but partial, not total.
Essentially, the ISS will take them close to the path of totality, a name given to the area where it will be possible to see the Sun completely hidden by the Moon. The best observing opportunity will be when they are west of Labrador, Canada, near the band of totality. There the astronauts will witness a 94% partial eclipse, that is, with the solar disk almost entirely hidden by the Moon.
Astronaut Loral O’Hara, cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya, first Belarusian citizen to go into space, will return to Earth on Saturday (6). Therefore, they will miss the opportunity to see the event on the ISS.
Meanwhile, taikonauts (name given to Chinese astronauts) Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin are in Chinese Tiangong space stationand is expected to return to our planet at the end of the month.
This means you won’t be able to see the eclipse in space. Since Tiangong will be too far from North America, the three will not be able to see the Moon covering the Sun nor its shadow cast on our planet.
Source: NASA, collectSPACE
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