Eclipse Megamovie 2024: Characterizing Transient Plasma Flows and Jets in the Solar Corona (EM2024)
School or Division: School of Science & Technology
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Calendar Start & End Date: -
Funding Amount: $158,876
Sonoma State University (SSU)’s EdEon STEM Learning team and Physics and Astronomy Department, together with the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will enlist a team of citizen scientists to explore and characterize how superheated gas (plasma) flows through the corona and chromosphere. Over 100 citizen scientists will be trained to take photographs of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. After the eclipse, the project will provide over 1,200 eclipse photos to scientists and the public. Eclipse Megamovie 2024 will then challenge volunteer photographers and data analysts to participate in an image-processing competition to uncover plasma flows and jets in the total solar eclipse images of the solar corona from both 2024 and 2017.