Two satellites were launched into space on Dec. 5, with plans for them to be used to create fake solar eclipses.
The two European Space Agency satellites were launched from India. They’re attached for now and will be separated later. The mission is known as Proba-3 and will focus on studying the wispy crown-like corona encircling the sun.
Europeans maneuvered the satellites into orbit and want to regularly use them to produce artificial solar eclipses of up to six hours. Eclipses, when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth and blocks the sun’s light, rarely happen naturally and only last a maximum of about 7 1/2 minutes....
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