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Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024)

Eclipse Megamovie 2024 is funded by NASA to utilize photographs of total solar eclipses taken by volunteers to discover the secret lives of solar jets and plumes.

Project URL: https://eclipsemegamovie.org

Geographic Scope: Headquartered at Sonoma State University in California with volunteers from around the US and beyond

Project Status: Active - recruiting volunteers

Participation Tasks: Classification or tagging, Data analysis, Photography,

Start Date: 04/23/2023

Project Contact: hellmanh@sonoma.edu

Federal Government Sponsor:

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Fields of Science: Astronomy and space, Computers and technology, Nature and outdoors

Intended Outcomes: Eclipse Megamovie 2024 is funded by NASA to discover the secret lives of solar jets and plumes. Many jets and plumes seem to disappear or change from the time they are formed on the Sun and when they move out into the solar wind. To learn more about these solar phenomena, we will use photographs taken by volunteers to identify solar jets as they leave the Sun's surface and solar plumes as they grow and develop. We aim for our research efforts to provide some clues or answers to this question.