GAVRT Solar Patrol

During the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, educators at the Lewis Center for Education Research in Southern California, and participants in the center’s Solar Patrol citizen science program will use the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) to observe solar “active regions” – the magnetically complex regions that form over sunspots – as the Moon moves over them. The team will use GAVRT (also known as Deep Space Station 28) to measure subtle changes to the radio emissions from active regions during the eclipse. The technique, first used during the May 2012 annular eclipses, revealed details on the Sun the telescope couldn’t otherwise detect.

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Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)