Transcripts For CSPAN NASA TV Coverage Of The Total Solar Eclipse 20170821

You can also watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. We will take your phone calls and get reactions. Of course, the big story today was the total Solar Eclipse as across the entire continental United States. It was the first such eclipse in 99 years and the first total Solar Eclipse visible in any part of america since 1979. On our facebook page, we want to know what you did earlier today and what you think about the future for the space program. Earlier this afternoon, cspan aired nasa tvs coverage. We will take you back to this afternoon beginning around 1 p. M. Eastern because we ares going to be tracing this eclipse all across the country. Not only does everybody in the country have a great view, but we have some views from the sky, dont we, sean . That is right. Looking up from the ground is how most of us experience the eclipse. Researchers wanted a different perspective, to image the moons shadow. In illinois and across the United States, teams use High Altitude balloons for a unique perspective. They are getting ready to launch a Research Balloon from carbondale, illinois. It is a realtime High Definition video system. Lets check in on the progress of that launch. Suddenly experience it eclipse in 4d, like being on the surface. To actually understand the corona, it is important. All stars have the corona, we corona, it is important. Need to understand why the energy is released in the way it is. We need to go inside the stadium right now, they are about to launch the balloon for the louisiana grant consortium. Go to kevin standing by. You see the balloon, that will let that get safely down to the ground. All the instruments all the instruments, the path is low. Great. Can you hear me ok . Yes. This is kevin, sorry about the mix up, i was too enthralled looking at this fantastic weather balloon that has just launched. You can probably see it behind me. Pandemonium here, good pandemonium, one of the weather balloons has launched and with me is one of the team members, introduce yourself to the entire world. No pressure. Hi, my name is colline, Program Manager for Louisiana Space Grant Consortium based at lsu. To keep a scorecard for people if they are wondering, we talked about the program director, he is your boss . Yes, he is my boss. What exactly is your job entail with the consortium . I manage the program, i write grants and reports and organize students and keep them on track and do communications training. Sounds like you do a lot of outreach, as well. It is in my heart and thrills your heart to see so many young people, you probably did not have to drag these young people kicking and screaming to do this help, did you . No, no, we brought four institutions with us and lsu is the home team and so they were always coming, but we had a competition to figure out which other students we would bring. We brought a team of 46 people. Okay. Right behind you now, i had forgotten, they are launching two balloons, the first balloon, i think we have a video of the first balloon. Right on top of us here. A few more seconds. We are getting ready to launch the second balloon. It launched already, that is another. Okay. The first balloon, colline, that was launched, where is it right now . Maybe 2000 feet, you think . It is, they go up about a thousand feet a minute, so a few thousand, probably been a couple minutes. There it goes, the other one has launched. A big yellow balloon filled with helium. The next time we see this balloon will be down on the ground, it will have wonderful data. Can you tell us about what goes into studying the winds and the weather reports, trying to calculate where this will land so you can quickly retrieve it and get your data. That is a whole other science. Yes, im not an expert on it, i can just tell you we do our predicts, well we started predicts months ago, doing them maybe every week or so and the last few weeks weve been doing predicts every single day, so we have a good idea, we think 36 kilometers, due east, near marion. We will have several chase vehicles staged and ready to go and im not sure if they decided to leave before or after totality, we have local people helping make sure we have access and were hoping it is going to be an easy recovery. Now, will you actually be on the chase team yourself . No, im not on the chase team. I need to do logistics here on the ground. I have been on a chase, it is very exciting. Im sure. Can you tell me about it . Please get a specific as you can. What are some of the most eventful ones . Has the balloon ever come down in in the river. How did you know . You are not kidding . Im not kidding. We had a landing in the pontchartrain river. It is better than landing in the airport, we were afraid that was going to happen. I would rather lay at the airport, the pontchartrain river could damage the instruments. But you are the expert. We would rather not interfere with air traffic control. That is true, landing in the pontchartrain river, the alligators did not make a meal out of your several thousand dollars worth of instruments. We didnt recover it. We have done water recovery, and invested in an inflatable kayak. We are seeing first contact, we have people putting on their glasses, we are seeing the first contact, about four minutes left, how many total Solar Eclipse have you seen, colline . This is my first. I assume you have your glasses. Feel free to put your glasses on. You want a pair . Yes, please. If you dont mind, im going to make sure you look down as much as possible. Right. Okay. My glasses are are your glasses on, too . They are on. Okay. And the sun, we are turning around, would it be okay if i turn my back to the camera to see the sun . Okay, im going to turn my back to the camera. My gosh. There is a small bite starting in the sun. That is gorgeous, isnt it . What are your comments . That is gorgeous, isnt it . Fantastic. The total Solar Eclipse in carbondale, illinois, has begun, small bite taken out by the satellite, the moon. Earlier they were telling people to talk about in one word, describe the eclipse. The word for me is majestic. A lot of times, i dont know about you, if i want to take a break on my computer, i can take these off. I will go to the solar ei think the dynamic observatory that will give videos of the rotating sun. These off. Colline, when i see that giant ball of gas rotating majestic is the word that comes to my mind. Could you agree . I absolutely agree. Its amazing and i think were fortunate to have this opportunity and to be in community with our students and faculty and staff from multiple institutions here at siu. It is extraordinary. It sure is. Thank you for your time. Keep up the great work. Thank you for talking with us. That was colline, with the lsu thank you so much to carbondale. That was amazing. That was great. I love looking at the images, you see Different Things in different parts of the country. Wonderful to share this with all of you. We will have more from carbondale later today. Please stick with us. We have so much coming up. From there and from here and nasa eclipse central at the college of charleston. We await the first glimpse of a total Solar Eclipse, when the movement of our moon completely blocks the view of the sun. We anticipate this aweinspiring, celestial event. Over the next three hours, we will track the Solar Eclipse as it moves across the entire United States from coasttocoast. Observing this incredible event through the eyes of nasa. Hello and welcome. Over the next three hours, we will look through the eyes of nasa and experience todays total Solar Eclipse. [applause] i have a great team on stage. We have a space weather scientist. Next to her is alex young. Over to my right is john the with over to my right is john, who will be taking your questions. Checking the weather conditions across the path of totality. We are coming to you at the college of charleston. Charleston is the last stop of the total Solar Eclipse. Were tracking the eclipse across the entire country to be the best images with the most compelling stories, along college of charleston. Science experts. We have views from brown telescopes, highaltitude balloons, airplanes, and from several nasa space crafts. And yes, and i want you to remember this, we even have live, live, no one else only here, the International Space station. If you want to see the eclipse like never before, stay with us through the eyes of nasa. This is the place to be. Hola. Ok, this is a winwin situation for america. We have a partial eclipse and a total eclipse. Explain the difference. Today, the moon will come across the earth and the sun. North america, Central America and parts of south america are going to see a partial Solar Eclipse. Which means that the moon is going to partially block the sun. It is going to look like the moon took a bite out of the sun. A total eclipse is going to happen in a very narrow path, 70 miles wide, coming from oregon and covering the entire United States and ending in South Carolina. You will see the total Solar Eclipse, meaning the moon will totally block the sun. The stars of the planets will come out. This is the day that we had been waiting for it is here, eclipse central. This is the place to be. We have of nasa tv broadcasts im on the path of totality. People can experience it. We will share information on how to experience it safely. Alex . What is so unique about the Solar Eclipse . The last time we had a total Solar Eclipse in the continental u. S. Was 1918 going coasttocoast, 99 years ago. We are having a total Solar Eclipse covering a huge portion of populated, acceptable land. This is giving us an unprecedented opportunity to study, to look at the impact on the earth. You can see the corona. And give a side effect likely never had before. The last time we have this kind of connection to where we are and who we are with the apollo eight earth ride. That gave us the perspective outside of just the earth. Unprecedented opportunity to study, to look at the impact on the earth. You can see the corona. And give a side effect likely never had before. The last time we have this kind of connection to where we are it showed us that we were a part of something bigger. And that is what this total Solar Eclipse brings to us. It allows us a window into the universe. And this is the most connected, most well observed even that we ever had in terms of a solar in terms of the total Solar Eclipse. The data and the experiences are going to be amazing. Ok, so we are witnessing a historical and monumental celestial event today. Johnny, can you help me out . You never, never looked directly at the sun. You may have seen these eclipse glasses. They are designed with a special filter. Ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun. Now, if you are in the path of totality, there is a short timeframe you can take your glasses off. This is only when the moon completely blocks the sun during totality. Lets watch this video to learn more. [video clip] ok. So, i am fortunate that i have glasses and a lot of people have glasses, but a lot of people dont have glasses. So what are other options . Let me start with you alex. Alex the simplest thing to remember is to use a pinhole viewer. There are a lot of ways to make it or you can take a simple piece of paper, poke a hole in it. To project the circular sun on the ground and then you can see the moon across it. But you can also use something a little more sophisticated if you little more sophisticated if you want. You can actually make a box. Just poke two holes inside of the box. You can project the sun inside the box. Make sure the sun is behind you. It will be an amazing projector. I got to do this because we are on the college of charleston. Make some noise [cheers and applause] that is what im talking about. The social media world is going to break records. Let me talk to my man on the social front. There are millions of people watching the broadcast right now. We will be monitoring the conversation online, taking your questions as a total Solar Eclipse treks across the United States. For updates, be sure to follow nasa facebook, twitter, tumbler, instagram, snapchat, and linkedin. We will be providing live coverage on Facebook Live and on Nasas Facebook page. You can ask your questions and check out their streaming sites like nasas periscope account, twitter, you stream and youtube. And of course, you can watch it online. And we have a special feature on our Facebook Live page, we have a 360 view from South Carolina. You can pan it around your computer and look up to the sky as the moon transits the eclipse. It will feel like you are right here with us in charleston, absent the heat. Finally, share your images with the eclipse with us on our flickr page. Share your images, and we will share them on social media during the broadcast. Remember to ask your questions with the hashtag eclipse 2017. Duane social media will be breaking records. You got to know that one of the most important things here, or today, is the weather. So, sean, you know, i am looking at charleston skies. What is going on around the nation . Sean the weather is the key factor for viewing todays total Solar Eclipse. Interest income it is 86 degrees, but with the humidity, it feels 99. We want to show you a satellite image. This is from the brandnew Weather Satellite that will be latest and greatest detailed imagery. Things are looking really good for the early parts of totality like in oregon and idaho and wyoming. As you get into the middle section of the country, places like nebraska and kansas city, jefferson city, there is cloud cover there that may hinder your ability to view the eclipse. As you get into carbondale, the skies are still pretty good there. Theres a storm system developing to the north and into parts of illinois. Things are looking clear until charleston. There is significant cloud cover, but were keeping our fingers crossed. I do see pockets of blue in there. We will have more later in the broadcast. Duane the moon is already moving across the face of the sun. We are minutes away. Remember, the total Solar Eclipse start in the west coast in oregon. We will be bringing you live images as it occurs. Nasas researcher is standing by at the oregon state fairgrounds. Jesse, give us a status report. Jesse thanks, duane. Totality is almost here. This is so exciting. Just before we get to that, i want to introduce andrea. Hey. Tell us about this really fun and cool viewing event. Andrea we are here with almost 9000 people at the oregon state fairgrounds. We have heard from a nasa astronaut. We had a university professor. Behind us, we at Space Science partners doing educational activities and interacting with the crowd we cannot wait for totality in a few minutes. Jesse thank you so much. I know you have to get going. Joining us to talk to us about the sun and give us more information is nasa lead is a nasa lead scientist from the Research Center. It is almost here. It is almost here. How many eclipses have you seen . I have seen nine eclipses. The other three had inclement weather, so i ended up seeing six. Jesse what can you tell us about the sun that will have our audience understand better . I just want to start by saying that i am in awe at this moment right now. We are buried to close to totality we are very close to totality. That dominates every cubic inch of space in our solar system. If i can get the video, what you will see is that it can be all engulfing. On the edge of the corona that you see is black and a video is because the sun is so intense that it overwhelms the dim brightness of the corona. Even from space, the can absorb the inner part of the corona. Not only that, but the entire solar system, as you can see, lives with this dynamic star. Where is the region conditions are set for supersonic, superhot corona two , of our outstanding questions in physics really. To understand the corona better, nasa is going to be launching a mission next year, or a year from now, how coincidental. It is actually going to get touch the sun. It is going to get closer to any other closer than any other spacecraft has gone before to the sun. To sample the very corona that we will be seeing very soon. Jesse yes, we will. It is almost here. Thank you, thank you for joining us. Thank you for sharing that. Now, we are going to take it back to nasa eclipse central in charleston. Duane just now, we have an exclusive look at the total Solar Eclipse. It is arriving at the United States. It is over the Pacific Ocean and about to reach oregon. This is the celestial event that we have been anticipating for years. We will be looking through the eyes of nasa from the g3 aircraft. Lets take in the views. Wow and now we are looking at the first glimpse of the total eclipse from the ground. Lets see. That is still the g3. There we go. We are taking our first look at the total eclipse on the ground. This is from salem, oregon. Where thousands of people are gathering and experiencing this monumental event a total solar , eclipse. Lets take in the view. That is so pretty thats the g3 there. Duane ok, so. As the sun is appearing again, we can see the diamond ring. It is fantastic. I see provinces, little red pieces of corona sphere from the lower atmosphere. This is amazing. That was pretty cool. It is breathtaking. Even seeing it right now through the tv, it is an amazing thing to see. I cannot imagine what we are going to feel in South Carolina when we have our chance. Duane sean, get that whether whether looking good in charleston. Is that from the g3 . I see spectra there. That is from salem. You are seeing the bright the camera is causing a prism effect there. That is really beautiful. That is the edge of the diamond ring affect. That is when people should put their glasses back on. When you see the diamond ring, that is the signal to put your glasses back on. That is amazing. Being able to look at that with your own eyes is an amazing experience. You can only be seen when you have this kind of totality. The corona, the the solar atmosphere. Duane that is what solar scientists really look for, right . That is where space weather comes from. That is where the particles originate from. Duane can we see that popping up there . If there was a mess projection leaving the sun, we can see it there. We have seen it in the past. I will show history later with images of people who drew these projections during the total eclipse. Why is it so important to get this type of view from the corona . You mean, like in a total Solar Eclipse . Mating amazing. That is the madris. It is important because we view these kind of eclipses artificially. The moon covers the sun and a perfect way that we see parts of the corona that we do not normally see. Explain that, and safety, too. Alex when you see that flash of light, that is when you should put your glasses back on because it can damage your eyes. Safety first, people, always. Duane salem, oregon. They got it good. Alex they have got a perfect view, and they are seeing one of natures most amazing spectacles. Duane i can only imagine the reaction on the ground from the folks there. Alex they are completely overwhelmed right now. Completely overwhelmed. Duane i certainly hope it gets Something Like that. [laughter] duane we got a here on Nasa Television through the eyes of nasa, and we have the International Space station coming up with other images that only we can bring. That only nasa can bring, yeah. Duane is it completely darker or is it coming out . Alex the filters are back on for the telescope. And now you see the crescent, which is the sun basically now being revealed after the eclipse. So, we are now back to the partial phase in the other direction. Exactly. Duane how fast is this going . Alex this shadow is passing across the country and depending on where you are, anywhere from 1200 to 1800 Miles Per Hour. It is moving incredibly fast because the moon itself in its orbit is moving at almost 3400 miles an hour. That, in combination with the rotation of the earth is what , gives its that shadow moving that fast. Duane lets talk about space weather. This is so important. Let us understand why it is so important. Space weather are the conditions outside of the sun. We look at the because we want to understand the conditions. If you look at the image now, you are going to see the solar dynamic conservatory, where the projections originate from. Well, when we look at the images, we also have to look at artificial eclipses. Like the one you are looking online, now. These are the ones i was talking about, duane. You have to block the solar surface to be able to see the solar atmosphere, the outside corona. But you are going to see , Something Like this today, and you saw it. But you are going to see a see its better because nature does it better than what we can do artificially. Now, there is not too much going on with the sun, however during a historic event, you can see a corona mass projections from the sun. Duane that looks pretty intense. That does not look good. [laughter] well, you know, space weather, we can affect communications. We have the Magnetic Field on the earth to protect us. That is our shield. We can analyze that using realtime models like the one you are seeing on the screen. We can understand how the mena Magnetic Field changes. Duane we are going to toss to idaho. And i think we really got some good stuff here. Are you there in idaho falls . I am absolutely here, duane brown. In fact, looking through the glasses right now, it is so weird. We have a crescent sun is that instead of a crescent moon. Had a totalave not eclipse here in idaho falls since 1889, 128 years ago. And things have certainly changed in idaho falls since then. There is a whole more people, especially with all of the visitors in town. We are just outside of the museum of idaho. We have partnered with the museum to make this an official viewing site for idaho. And they have an exhibit on space, but we also sent in a team of experts. And for the past three days, we have had talks, demonstrations, we have shown visualizations such as eyes on the solar system, and we have shown them artwork. But really, the order of the day is the eclipse. And nasa has that covered, too. They have sent an army of volunteers that we call solar system ambassadors. They are all along the path of totality, and they are volunteers, these are people just telling people what they are seeing, and helping them understand. We have one here right here. His name is richard. Hey, richard. He has been manning this mobile observatory. That is what is giving us our shot right now. We asked him what it is like being a solar system ambassador . He said, follow along. We went with him to a place of school in southern california. Take a look. [no audio] we apologize. There is no audio on the video. It talks about the solar system ambassadors. They are 720 in the United States. They get special training from nasa. They learn all about the missions and about the science. They go out to Public Events around the country and teach them about nasa missions. If you would be interested in becoming a solar system ambassador yourself, you can. We have a website. Look it up. Solar system ambassadors. It is a nasa website. Starting september 1 through the end of the month, you can sign up to be a solar system ambassador. Check it out on the web. Solar system ambassador. With me now is jim green. Head ofn is the Planetary Science for nasa. He is in charge of all Planetary Missions and asteroids. This guy knows his stuff. Lets talk about this. You see this eclipse that does not happen. It happens once in a lifetime. You see it as an opportunity. Absolutely. We are getting the eerie feeling right now, but when we watch the when we launch balloons, and there will be 57 balloons, 30 of which will have a planetary experiment on them. We have video of this. Just a few days ago, we had a crew and they did a test launch. They sent up an imaginary haloed to see how it all works. You have actual scientific experiments going on. We do. We have a harmless bacteria. We have 30 eric 30 balloons. We have two areas where the bacteria will be sprayed. One is on the ground and one is a fixed to the balloon a. It will go up to 100,000 feet above the ozone. The ultraviolet light locked by blocked by the moon is just like mars. In addition to that, the temperature and pressure will be just like mars. When the balloon goes up higher and bursts, we will retrieve the coupon off the balloon and match it with the one on the ground, and we will see how many survive. Why is that information so critical for Mars Research . This bacteria is pretty much everywhere. It is very hearty. It has probably made its way to mars. Perhaps even on our rover. I would like to know if thats if that environment is so harsh that it would eliminate that bacteria or not. I am being selfish. I have never seen a total eclipse. Ofould love to talk to all you people. I want to put on my glasses, too. Can we continue this conversation . We can talk. Just a little sliver of the sun night now. Lets talk about this. Why is this so rare . The plane of the moon relative to the earth is tilted by five degrees. There is only two places where the moon and earth and sun are on that same line. That is why every 18 months or so we get an eclipse. One minute away. [applause] the crowd is getting excited. It just got dark. All around us. You can feel the temperature getting colder. The winds are really picking up. The winds are flowing in. It is a tiny sliver right now. [applause] closing up. There it goes. It is getting smaller. [applause] oh my gosh. Look at it. You cant get that on film. That is amazing. There is venus. Wow, wow. Wow look at that ray structure. You are saying this is the only way you can see the atmosphere . The lower part of corona is even hard to see from space. Wow. I need to spend a second looking around at the crowd. Have you noticed the streetlights are on . Of course. [laughter] who would have thought . We didnt plan that one. We should get ready for our glasses again. Here it goes. There is the diamond ring. Oh my gosh. [applause] oh, my gosh that is brilliant. Wow. Ok, glasses back on. We are going to have to wrap this up pretty soon, jim. That was incredible. Way too brief. We got one minute 50 seconds. That is all we had. Why do some parts of the country get more . It has to do with the curvature and a shadow. The shadow is at various altitudes. You can go up at a higher altitude and get a great view. This this was a real treat. Idaho falls has had its total eclipse. In 2052. One is coming we wont be here, but we hope nasa will. Back to you. I am jealous. Alex, explain again the diamonds. Alex the last bit of sunlight when you see it at the very beginning as when the last bit of the sun shrinks down to a little bit and at the same time, you can see a ring of the corona around it. That makes the ring. When it reappears, you get the same thing. The last bit of corona is the ring. The flash of the sun is the diamond giving you the diamond ring. There was something going on here in charleston. This is really cool for planets. You can see all the planets, right . Absolutely. As a matter of fact, one of our missions are studying mercury which is very close to the sun. We will come back to you and talk about what is happening here. Nasa is ready to take a bite out of the big apple, one of my favorite cities. New york city. Todays broadcast is being shown in times square on the toshiba vision screen so the city can enjoy the total eclipse. We have a great relationship with toshiba. A shout out to you guys. This midtown manhattan tourist location is always bustling with crowds. On the average day, over 300,000 people passed through times square. They have a rich history. Alex they really do. 92 years ago, on a cold january morning, new york city, manhattan, and cleans experienced a total Solar Eclipse. The edge of the path of totality went from 95th to 97th street. This was the first time we sent Naval Services for scientists to study this. At the time, we thought eclipse is could be creating radio waves which messed with communication. What is happening is the sun itself is creating this disturbance. So studying the eclipse is telling us about the sun, which is creating these disturbances on earth. Ok, this just in. We have a result from an experiment that occurred. Karen is standing by. Lets go to see what the instrument observed during the total Solar Eclipse. We are back at the gthree off the Pacific Ocean off the coast of oregon. It was actually amazing. I want to take about talk about two things. The corona. I saw the models. It was remarkably similar. There were magnetic factors coming out in close like we expected. The other one is the spectrograph. Before on board and just the sun disappeared behind the moon, the spectrograph showed it was spreading out the light. Just before it disappeared, there was that one shot. Do you see the specific lines that pop up between the green and the red . It is helium. That is how it was discovered. We do not know we had helium. It was a new element. Over in the red, is iron. That is telling us the atmosphere is really hot. A little bit over, another line, red. It is hydrogen. Even though it is really hot out there and only one in a million or 10 million particles are neutral, it is still visible in that one shot you saw. Robert, back on earth, how did you see this occurred . Robert it was fascinating to watch the path of totality underneath us. We are at 35,000 feet. You could see at totality coming you can see the darkness on the ground. You could look north and south see where it was completely dark. As we kept going, you could watch the darkness move. It was almost like a thunderstorm moving across the plains. It was stunning to me. I wasnt expecting that. The eclipse itself was beautiful, seeing what happened on the ground from 35,000 feet was amazing. The team on this plane in the country is doing a fantastic job. I wish you could have seen the folks here working to make sure we got the data. I cant wait to share it with everyone. Really exciting to watch this team work. The pilots did a great job. We did have a little bit of a challenge and they did a great job recovering from that and kept us on path. Thank you. Remember to put your glasses on. We will talk to you soon. Fantastic stuff. If you just tuned in, you are watching Nasa Television. We have the best views of the Solar Eclipse today and coming later in the show, International Space station live. Next up, lets visit a working farm in tennessee. Solar eclipse viewing activities are underway, including High Altitude. To that. Humans are naturally excited about the Solar Eclipse the one , thing we have learned on the agricultural farm, is animals can. We are getting ready to do a live scientific illusion watch illusion launch. Thank you for joining us. Tell the crowd in our audience about the scientific payload you have on board. Thank you for having me. We are flying still image equipment and will take images of the ground. We are also flying Live Streaming equipment so we can live stream the eclipse looking downwards and around at 100,000 feet which is higher than any plane has ever gone. We are flying biological samples and our tracker so we can have a successful recovery. They just released your balloon. Lets talk about the biological substances. We were contacted, and we will have biological samples on there and they will go into the stratosphere which is a similar one that we would see on the martian surface. So we will be doing martian studies. How many balloon releases are you planning on doing today and this weekend . We have about 50 that are launching in the path of the eclipse so we can have full coverage. On the site today, we have three launches from three different universities. We are really excited to be here, and hopefully all successful launches. When the balloons go up and come back down, what is advice if anyone finds these out and across the country, what do you tell them . If you find them, leave it there. Maybe take a picture because it is cool, but please dont touch it. We will be soon there to pick it up. If you have to move it, let us know, and we will be there to recover it. Thank you for your time. Yesterday we had a chance to catch up with students serious about doing realworld science. Here to tell us more is mitzi adams. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Tell us about the science that High School Students are working on. Mitzi they are working on Atmospheric Science experiments. They are doing animal study experiments. Theyre helping us observe the sun in various wavelengths of light. They are not just from clarksville, theyre all across the country. Mitzi they are from the u. S. Space and Rocket Center in they are from all around the globe. They are from the inspire project as well. Lfy are participating in the radio noise experiments. Those folks are from washington dc. You mentioned the space camp. Feel free if youre in northern alabama to come and see them. They do a good job of representing nasa. Any parting words . Mitzi in the words of frank reynolds, i would like for us to remember for the next american eclipse in 2024, let the shadow of the moon fall on an earth at peace. Poetically done. We appreciated. Coming up next is our animal lovers section. Here on the farm, students are studying conservation management, veterinary medicine, and biology. They are interested in animal behavior. Joining us is the head of the department. It is not cow tipping, it is correct . Ing, we have to think the cows in the study to see what sort of things they were exhibiting so that we could record them. We saw the cows, and the students were involved, and we are also talking about cricket behavior and cricket observations. We are also talking about crickets. I am entomologist and they generally chirp at night. We will see what they do when the sun goes down. You are doing this Observational Research and we appreciate your time. Thanks a lot. Speaking of time, it is time for us to watch the Solar Eclipse. Lets go back live for continuing coverage. Ok, i wonder if the milk tastes better when you paint a big house. I dont think so. Lets go to social media. It is a buzz. Over to john for a social media update. Last time i checked, there was 2. 1 Million People on the website. It is a huge conversation. Solar eclipse 2017 is still trending on twitter. Lets go to the first slide. This is an amazing photo. By one of our photographers in washington. He captured it in International Space station transiting the sun during the partial eclipse in washington. It is pretty amazing. You have to look closely. We will be putting these up online if you want to see them. Here is another one from our photographer in wyoming. Same concept. We knew exactly when the space station was going to be flying. When its orbit was and when it would cross the sun. It is an amazing site. I am proud of our photographer for getting these shots and getting proactively what no one else has. Lets take a few questions from social media. I want to remind our viewers that you can ask us questions on eclipse 2017. Why dont we bring it back to the stage. The first question is from twitter. What if we wear sunglasses instead of eclipse glasses, would we be able to see the eclipse, does the sunglasses give you any . Give you any protection . You should not wear sunglasses. Always wear the sunglasses that are made for solar viewing, like the one i am having here in my hand. If you do not have the glasses, you do not look directly at the sun. You do an indirect projection of the eclipse. Never look at the sun without the proper safety glasses. Another question from facebook. So the sunrise is in the east and sets in the west, please explain how it starts in the west and ends in the east . The earth is rotating west to east, but actually the moon is moving faster, about 3400 Miles Per Hour casting a shadow down the earth which is rotating at 1700 Miles Per Hour. It means the shadow is moving from west to east across the earth at about somewhere between 1200 to 1800 Miles Per Hour depending on where you are. Tina from facebook asks if i place a lens from eclipse viewing glasses on my ipad on a view park, could i successfully video it or will it fry my camera . Yes, you can look to the ipad or your phone, but you have to be careful not to look at it with your own eyes without the actual safety glasses. Never look at it through any lens. Nasa, you can see a shadow of a moon from space. Do they have that view and they are looking from space . They do and that is what we are hoping to see. We will go back to shawn, our meteorologist, to learn how nasa is studying the earth during the eclipse. Sean, can you tell us more about that . Thanks. During the eclipse, it ask like a large cloud. Casting a large shadow. The footage you are seeing shows a Solar Eclipse that occurred in march 2016 over indonesia. That experience helped us determine best to study todays eclipse. These images were taken from nasa. It is one of the incidents we will be using today to study the eclipse. Scientists have made extensive atmospheric measurements during eclipses but this is the first , opportunity to collect coordinated data from the ground and a spacecraft that observes the entire earth. Back to you. Duane we have a special guest with us today, from the nasas office of communications. Welcome. Thank you. So happy to be here. Duane this is an exciting day. Our next location you are familiar with. I know something about the great state of nebraska. I lived there for the last decade. I have friends and family who are watching from the path of totality. I have to tell you, this is by far the biggest thing that has happened in nebraska as of recent. It is absolutely fabulous. I have had friends from high school and college calling me and Facebook Messaging me, asking where they can get their glasses, and where they can be viewing from. It is an exciting day for everyone who is watching along the path of totality. It is also an exciting day for nasa. This gives us an opportunity to look for it as well. We have a future study we are going to be doing to study the sun. Nasa is going to launch a craft a spacecraft next year. It will go directly into the solar atmosphere. This will provide first of its kind data appeared former information on this future mission, lets go to beatrice, nebraska where the Langley Research center is standing by. He is at Homestead National monument when the park service has coordinated and eclipse of viewing. Duane this is going to come on shortly. We are going to go back with an image. But we will join nebraska as soon as we can. Thank you. This is a different view. What are we seeing . Alex this is a different wavelength of light. This is light that is produced by calcium. This is showing us the sun as the moon is moving over it. If you look to the left, on the edge of the sun, you see sunspots. These are reasons that physicists like myself are most interested in because that is where solar explosions originate from. It comes into the corona and it is what we see during the total Solar Eclipse originate from the sunspots. The sunspots had a solar flare yesterday. I believe this is from carbondale. Why is it purple . That is actually the lights and they colored of the filter. The filter is a bluish light and it comes out as a purple color. It is a type of visible light. It is one we look at quite often from space and the ground. I see some black things that look like rivers on the left. Those are sunspots. What is a sunspot . That is where most of the space weather originates. It is regions of the sun that have a complicated Magnetic Field. This is where most of the Magnetic Energy is released. Those are regions of the super intense Magnetic Fields, 1000 times stronger than the earths Magnetic Field. Those have lots of energy and they drive space weather. I think that is why we didnt get to nebraska right now is because those things caused. [laughter] lets talk about moon shadowing. We have incredible imagery for you. This is from the go 16 Weather Satellite. What you are seeing in the western portion of this image is actually the moons shadow being cast over the path of totality. You see the cloud cover over parts of america at now. It is looking good for the western parts of the u. S. Not so good for parts of the central u. S. , where we have thunderstorm activity developing and expected to develop later today and this afternoon for places like nebraska and missouri and northern illinois. It gets better again in terms of cloud cover as we move further east toward charleston. Here in charleston, we have breaks in the clouds where the sun is. We are able to see some of the partial eclipse here in charleston through breaks in the clouds. We really wanted to show you the imagery from go 16 satellite, showing you the moons shadow being cast over parts of the western United States right now. I will hand it back over to you. Duane as a reminder, we are tracking the total Solar Eclipse. It is moving along a path of totality up to 70 miles wide sweeping across the entire nation. Over to the Million People live inside the path of totality. 7 Million People have traveled with him a path of totality. Today is a day of celebration as people gathered to cities. Lets get into Cultural Impact. Alex, what is your take on the Cultural Impact of the eclipses . Alex this is a fantastic opportunity to connect the nation and the world with one of natures most amazing celestial events. This is something that we at nasa are excited to share. In fact, we work with some of our colleagues including the u. S. Postal service. The Postal Service created a special stamp for this event. What i want to do, lets talk about the stamps. The sunspots are gone. Lets go to nebraska. He is there. We are at the Homestead National monument of america. This is a great location to watch the eclipse. I have a good spot on the prairie. Even though the weather is not cooperating, this is still an excellent event. We are also very prepared. Please be sure to wear your glasses when you are viewing the eclipse. You can cause serious damage to your eyes if you do not take precautions. There are a lot of people watching. As you can tell, the festivities are in full swing. I am joined by susan cook. Hey, vince. Thank you for joining us. Tell us about what is going on behind us. Susan we are at the National Park site dedicated to telling the story of homesteading. 30 states, 40 Million People. The head of the household anyone , can own land. You have 160 acres. It is how we settled the west. We built our democracy. We built our economy. But is so interesting. I understand the mayan calendar follows the Solar Eclipse calendar closely. Is that correct . Susan the mayans used calendars to organize their lives. The hub calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days subdivided into 18 months of 20 days plus one month of five days. Another calendar is made of 260 days subdivided into 13 months of 20 days. This calendar also has a residence with eclipses which occur every 176 days. Every three sequences of eclipses align every two cycles. So could keep track of that . Vince it is amazing. I have to congratulate you. This is an amazing venue. Tell is about the activities you have planned. We have stage performances going on, many nasa scientists you can learn about. , youe defend our world have nice a scientists doing other things, we have native americans. We have the skype program. We have focus it. We have fiddle music. Lots going on. Balloon launches. It is really exciting and a lot of fun. Thank you so much. We are lucky enough to be joined by a nasa scientist. Let me introduce you to nikki. Thank you for joining us. Weather expert, a scientist on nasas probe program. Thank you for joining us. Today is a great day for you. Tell us why . This is my first Solar Eclipse. It is the only chance we can see eye. Orona with our naked i am particularly excited because im working on nasas probe mission and we are going to fly into the corunna. You will bes part, able to see where our mission is flying. How close will it get to the sun . We will get within a 400 million miles. If i put the earth and the sun on a football field, we would be at the four yard line. That is amazing. For you watching at home, that is like traveling from washington dc to philadelphia in one second. How can you be so close to the sun and not burn up . We have a wonderful heats shield. Heat shield. It is now that the technology has caught up with our dreams. That is amazing. It looks like we are coming up to the moment of totality. What are some of the things we should be looking for . You should see a beautiful corona. It looks like a pearly, hazy crown around the sun. It is called the corona because that is latin for crown. As it goes dark, it is becoming twilight. You hear everyone going crazy. You should start seeing stars and we can see four planets. You should see mercury, mars, and venus within this night sky during the day. It is an amazing areas. If you cannot see the corona, i have a 3d print that was done for me and it is a prefix for what the corunna looks like. If it is cloudy, here is your corunna. It looks like the moment of totality is upon us. Lets have the people at home and sounds of the crowd. You can see the corona. Are seeing this wonderful hazy atmosphere. I do not need my glasses now because we are in totality. This is the only time it is safe to look. Right now, you can see that hazy ring. That is the corona sphere looking reddish. You can see those red wisps that are prominent coming away from the sun. Unfortunately, we cannot see the sun yet because of the clouds. My goodness, you can see the corunna. It is an incredible sight. This is magnificent. It really is. Other than the people hooting and hollering, Everything Else has gone quiet. The animals think it is nighttime. It is this amazing like view all around us. Look at the corunna. That is incredible. Absolutely incredible. That is amazing. The moon is going to continue. We have about two minutes, 35 seconds of this beer. Here we come. Here comes the diamond ring. Get those glasses on, again. Glasses on. Here it comes. There is the diamond ring. That is the most spectacular sight. That is amazing. Just incredible. The diamond ring you see because smooth is not a totally sphere so you are seeing spots of light peeping out between the craters on the men. My goodness, i am so excited. It is incredible. It is hard to contain the excitement of the energy. There are 10,000 people on the prairie. The energy is amazing. They have been here since 6 00 this morning. The atmosphere has been incredible. Everyone is happy. It has been amazing. That is amazing. Wow. You toi, lets bring this side. It looks like the moment of totality has passed. What should we be watching for the moments after totality . You will see the diamond ring and i got really excited. Man continues to pass away, you will start to see these solar circuits come back. It is becoming light again. If we had roosters here, they would be crowing. It is amazing. You will see this on coming back. What it would have been like if you do not know the sun was going to come back. You just thought it was disappearing. Here comes the sun, again. It is a wonderful day on the prairie. That is wonderful. Thank you so much for talking us through that. I would not be anywhere else. Thank you very much. What a great experience, everybody. Like things are starting to conduct on the prairie. That does not mean the show is over. Our coverage continues across the entire path. Lets go ahead and send it back to nasas eclipse centro central. Thank you, vince. It was worth the wait. We were delayed but my goodness, did you see that . That was amazing. Did you see that diamond ring . That was more prominent there. Ofyou could see the rate light very, very nice. The whole diamond around the whole surface. It was amazing. It got really dark. That i enjoyed seeing them on the prairie. It looks like he was in some sort of weird, strange light. She was lit up and everything behind her was dark. Nebraska, you are rocking the house. We appreciate that. There is a lot more to come. We have the International Space station, dont forget. We had to bring in those images, but we were talking you mentioned the stamp. They do amazing work. They really outdid themselves this time. Did. Ey they created a special stamp for this event. It is a thermo from it stamp bych means it gets activated heat. You are looking at it in your images. This stamp, if you put your thumb in the center, it will make the moon appear or any type of heat you apply to it is going to make the stamp. I got mine yesterday inks to duane. It is the thermo, . It gets activated by the heat. I bet they sold a lot of those stamps. They did. They sold out online originally right away. It is quite a popular one. The first time the u. S. Has used that type of ink. We have seen some pretty cool images. Still have more to come, the diamond has been prominent. Lets go over to social and see how things are going. We are continuing to look appear. There are clouds and we are just a couple of interesting things. This is the biggest livestream event ever measured on nasa. Gov. Web trafficederal which is amazing. People are tuning into our broadcast. 4. 4 Million People and climbing. Interest across the country is obvious. We will show you amazing live views. This here is another photo of the space station taken by bill ingalls in washington, one of our photographers. I have a video from another photographer. As the space station transits. You can see it there. If you are looking closely, you can see the space station during the partial eclipse. Pretty spectacular. That is 250 Miles Per Hour. 17,000 you have to be taking a lot of different shots pretty fast. Lets go to jefferson city. The man shadow is passing over the United States in this celestial event. Our next stop is jefferson city, missouri. We are going to hand off to the meteorologist who is a professor and Atmospheric Science at the university of missouri. He has a special guest to impacts it important can have on humans. Over to you, eric. Lot. Anks a we are live in jefferson city, missouri. Jefferson city is the state capital. There is a lot of people that are here. It has been a whole weekend type of thing. A saturday, sunday, and of course on monday. Lots of friendly familyfriendly things. There is a lot of of good food. Too bad you cannot smell the food. A very nice weekend. The weather has been perfect. We have had showers and thunderstorms off to the west all morning. We have had a few clouds. Things are looking good. Two lucky to be joined by special people that are going to be talking about space, weather, and how things work in space. Dr. Janet, thank you so much. You are the director of the nasa glen Research Center in cleveland. You are also a threetime shuttle astronaut or you are from springfield, missouri. Welcome home. Thank you. Great to be back. We have been talking about safety. You do not want to look at the sun. Not without these. We all have these. What about the astronauts that are up in space . What is there to help keep the astronauts safe from the solar radiation . For their eyes, they know certain when does they should not look out of because there is no protection. Other windows have protection that helped shield their eyes. Also there are other kinds of radiation like protons that come from the sun. We try to shield it as best we can because they are above the atmosphere. You do not have that natural shielding. We have to do it with metal. Bags around to the space station so they can sleep surrounded by water. That helps absorb that radiation. We also are excited about dictation, that is another researched area. Another doctore. R you are also a space meteorologist. You also are referred to as a space weather woman. This. Ntrigued by what exactly does a space weather woman do . Most people do not realize that the sun has its own unique weather. There are solar directions that come from the sun. They cause issues for us. Id do a weekly podcast in weather predictions like you do. It talks about when you can prevent dutch and the issues they cause the communications. We are about 15 seconds away. To put our glasses on and you can hear the crowd cheering. It is getting dark. Here we go. Almost at totality. Look at the diamond ring right there. There we go. I think we are at totality. You can take your glasses off. That is amazing. [applause] you can see the corona a little bit. That is incredible. Seen numerous sunrises and sunsets from the shuttle, how does this compare . This is completely different. I have seen a partial, but nothing like this. This is very unique. Nothing like i saw in space. I am starting to hear the crickets. They are starting to come out. The streetlamps. This is amazing. I am also looking up to find the big dipper some of the other stars. Through the clouds, likely. I am mesmerized by this. This is a spectacular event. We have had several thunderstorms launched and some have been launched on the left side of the sun, so we are seeing a different difference of what the corona looks like an hour prediction and what it looks like now. Is aller atmosphere turbulence. It affects the communication signals. We have gps operators and hand radio operation operators working. This is amazing. The university of missouri, they are sending up weather balloons this afternoon to figure out how the weather is changing at certain high levels. Here is a map of the solar radiation throughout missouri. You can see how much solar radiation is heading here in missouri. Re in missouri. E you can see the dips and the valleys but you can see areas of the sun where it is shining. Once we get out of totality which is coming up soon. I think we come out of totality at 1 15 local time. We have a few more seconds. Absolutely an amazing event. We are so lucky that some of these high clouds were able to follow part. I cannot believe we can actually see it through the clouds. That is the airhorn. We are coming out of totality. We need to put our safety glasses back on. Put your glasses back on. Goodness we are coming out of totality. Thank you so much, ladies. What an experience. Ateveryone is excited jefferson city, missouri. The sun is starting to come out. Thanks, eric. Wow. I get toan amazing guzmans every time i see it is going to be when we see it in South Carolina. Alex, i am speechless. You have to love the stuff. It is so great. I love hearing and experience experiencing atmospheres astronauts explain what she has seen. But also to hear my colleague , i cana helio physicist hear the excitement in her voice. It is palpable. Thingshis out, i think are going so smooth, we are going to go to another image from hop skins. On . N, what is going do you have action there . Here it is. That is beautiful. They are getting close. It is yellow, does that mean something . Was a previous one we saw blue light, this is more of a white light. The thing to remember is sometimes the different filters you use will change the keller a little bit. What we are seeing here is more visible, broader spectrum white light. You have got to have cool stuff on social media. This is a good question. When observing the moon at toht, if seen from eastern western horizon, how come the Solar Eclipse is traveling from east to west across the u. S. . When we are looking at the moon, that is because of our location on the earth, the fact that the earth is rotating from west to east. The same reason the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The moon itself is moving in the same direction the earth is rotating. It is casting that shadow down on the earth and that is moving in the direction that both the moon is orbiting and the earth is rotating. From west to east. Ok, the total eclipse has passed over half the country. It is over illinois. I think we are going to have reviews coming up shortly. To do is this has been really incredible. I want to give a shout out to the students of charleston. Make some noise. [applause] [chanting] it here. We have live video coming from kentucky, a small town with southern hospitality. It is a prime spot for viewing this eclipse. It is a city with the longest ratio of the total eclipse with a total of two minutes and 40 seconds of totality. What do you got . We are just as excited as you are. Say hello, everybody [applause] i am surrounded by 1000 of my best friends. It is starting to get dark. We are joined by nasa scientist, run a. Renee. It is great to be here. Thank you for having us out on this farm in kentucky. We are excited. Definitely. It is a lot of fun. The light is starting to fade. We are at the point of greatest eclipse in hop skins bill. What is the significance of that . The point of the greatest eclipse is the point of time when the axis of the moon shadow is pointed most directly towards the center of the earth. We are at the point on the surface of the earth where that time occurs. Exactly. The shadow will be more circular than anywhere else in the country. That is right. It is getting dim. We are so close. This is amazing. We cannot wait to break out in darkness. We have our glasses are you can see on the screen our live telescope view. This is amazing. Everybody is enjoying this we have people from all over kentucky, people from all over the world have joined us. We are a few minutes away from total totality. Before we get to that point, tell us you are a planetary scientist and you specialize in the moon, how does the eclipse speak to what you do . It is pretty quilt to look up there and when you are seeing that some get dumber and dumber, it is because the moon is up there. Dimmer and dimmer, it is because the moon is up there. Its starting to get cooler. My first public eclipse. I have seen partial eclipses. I have never had a chance to see totality. Fadee light is starting to as the main steps in front of the sun. It is already an eerie feeling getting dark in the middle of the day. We are a few seconds away. That is absolutely amazing. We are down to ace down to a thin sliver of the sun. It looks incredible. Ands starting to get dim nobody needs their sunglasses. Just your eclipse glasses. You can see that beautiful crescent sun. This is absolutely amazing. We are really looking forward to that chance where we have no clouds, you can see airplanes up there. That son is getting smaller and smaller. A sponsorefinitely day in a eclipse a bill. There is not a cloud in the sky. How it hasis gotten cooler here since the sun started how the sun has gotten covered. We have been sweating it out a couple days here getting ready for this. Getting really close now. What exactly are we looking at . We are about close to 100 . Just getting smaller and smaller and getting dimmer and dimmer. Hopefully we will have a chance to see that diamond ring. That is when you can see the light shining through the moons valley. Has that rugged surface and you can see those sun rays shining through those mountains and valleys and craters. It is looking like we are about one minute out. It is getting smaller and smaller. Wow. This is amazing. The crowd is a is getting excited, too. Who back there is excited for the Solar Eclipse . [applause] it is getting closer. Wow. It is getting really close to nighttime. It is very dim. It definitely feels like don or desk. It is getting closer. Dusk. N or it is getting closer. Can see on our feed that tiny, tiny little sliver left. It is really starting to get dark, now. Wow. It is like a desk. Dusk. It is like a sunset. It is beautiful. It is going. Just that tiny sliver left. Oh my goodness. [cheering] wow we are in total Solar Eclipse. This is absolutely breathtaking. You can see the corona, that beautiful white crown coming from the sun in all directions. I think i see jupiter in the sky over there. I think i can see jupiter. Wow. I see other planets too, and stars. I can only imagine an agent times what this must have been like. Out of nowhere. I am covered in goosebumps. I am, too. I cant believe we got a chance to see it. It is one thing to read about it, but another thing to see it yourself. We are going to take a break. We are going to step back and fully enjoy this and hope you enjoy our feed on the telescope. It has definitely lived up. We are getting that diamond ring. The moon is stepping aside from the sun. Totality has finished at hop kinsville. Can you try to put it into words . I cant. I have goosebumps all over my body. This is amazing. We can see the birds flying over. We can see the sun coming up. It is getting bright. This is amazing. It really is a onceinalifetime opportunity. We get to see it again. I will be there. We will be making our way. I think i am helped. Hooked. To itsas lived up billing. I cannot believe what just happened. We were so worried about the weather and the broadcast and making sure our telescope was set up. Everything went smooth. We had a blast. This was an absolutely amazing we have really enjoyed it. It has been a great time. To send it back to clarksville, tennessee where chris is standing by for their reaction to the eclipse. Chris . I think he meant charleston. Lets bring it back here. There is only one eclipse central and it is here in charleston. [applause] it keeps coming through the eyes of nasa. Lets continue. These are going to be prerecorded views from the highaltitude aircraft. They saw sword high above the clouds that could block to be as of todays eclipse. Conductraft is used to research to lets go to these prerecorded views. What are we seeing here . We are looking at these specially fitted cameras on the nose tone of the wb 57. These are designed to look at the corona and they are designed to look at mayor kerry. At mercury. They are taking thousands of images every minute and processing this data to give us a view. It isre at 50,000 feet, 20 to 30 times darker than it is here. This is a unique opportunity as they giveplanes fly, us a tour more minutes of the view of the corona. The other thing they are looking at is because they are so high up, it is very cold. It allows them to take infrared observations. In this case, mercury is close to the sun. They can take observations of mercury to see the temperature change as mercury is rotated. Is rotating. Amazing. Lets go to clarksville and see what is going on there. Thanks. Welcome back. We are excited to highlight the students highlight of this Solar Eclipse spirit we have several students joining us. Tell us the audience your name and your school you go to. I am from the university. Im with a club. You guys have been launching balloons all day. Tell us about the scientific instrumentation. Gete had a payload to camera footage along the way. We had hops from one of our local burglaries. We had on our second berlin we had a Live Streaming payloads. That was our biggest project. We were excited with our experience experiments. We appreciate it. That is university of alabama in huntsville. We have another student joining us from space camp in huntsville, alabama. Tell us your name and the city. I am stephanie, i am from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. What have they been doing all weekend long to get prepared . Day before we left we did a whole bunch of eclipse stuff. We did classes about what to the eclipse is and what we will experience. A lot of safety stuff. They did not want people burning their retinas. We talked about what experiments we would be doing. We set up the boxes over here. Hopefullyd Interesting Data about what is happening during totality. You guys are going to go over that data. Tell us about the students, where they are from . We have students all over the country. Even all over the world. We have students who are from spain, someone from norway, all over the world. Was from a girl who mexico, a boy from mexico, they were talking to each other in mexican im sorry, in spanish. That was cool meeting other people in different cultures. Education is global. Give us your first reaction to the viewing. It was really crazy. It is daylight here, and daylight before, then the eclipse comes in slow. It is like a glowing ring in the sky. It is incredible. It is hard to explain. The lighting is not dark, it is like almost eerie. Almost ambient lighting. There is sunset everywhere. Was likeality, it someone turned daylight back on. The moon it moved away and it was like again. Absolutely we appreciate your time. We have one more student. Tell us your name and what school you attend. Attend anbert and i academy in maryland. Tell us about the research you were working on. I was working with the balloons and width of the shadow bands and the radio. How about your first reaction to the Solar Eclipse it was amazing. And almost went pitch black. It was amazing. I appreciated it. Thanks a lot. On behalf of everyone, thank you for letting us be a small part of this wonderful event. As go back live for continuing coverage from charleston. Thank you. We are having a great time in the college of charleston. We have more images coming later. Lets get some images coming in from the great smoky mountains. Wow. That . What is we are looking at the sun that is still too bright. It is almost completely covered. It is getting dimemr and di dimmer and dimmer. We are going to go straight from this to the corona. It will be a cool shot. Still have to have your glasses on. Still too bright to look at directly. Tiny almost like a christmas star, or something. It is getting tinier and tinier. Why is it in the shape of a star . There it is, i can see the corona. That is because the camera did not have a filter on it. We can see the corona. There is a black dot and you can see the corona around it. That is the closest to what we will see when we look at it with our own eyes. They have to be buzzing on the conversation here. A lot of questions coming in. It is trending all over social media. Lets pull up this image right here on the sidebar. Fromis one of our users arlington, texas. The eclipse on his hand. We have the toshiba screen in new york city where everyone in times square is able to see the partial eclipse. It is pretty spectacular. We have a few questions. I would like to get a couple in. Is it ok to see a seller eclipse see a Solar Eclipse in selfie mode . The sun is behind you. If youre looking down and the sun is behind you, that will protect your eyes. The main thing is you do not want to have it pointed directly might movewhere you away. And see it with your unprotected i eye. Let me use this opportunity to talk about safety reminders about making sure. The partiale in Solar Eclipse, make sure you always have your glasses on to look at the sun. The only time that it is safe to take off the glasses, when the moon completely blocks the surface of the sun. In totality. That is the timing to put back your glasses, to look back at that amazing event. Lets get one more social question before we go to the next space. Fit is already cold and dark here. Is it safe to be outside in the eclipse . Absolutely. It is nothing different. We are just having less sunlight. There is no real difference and bere is and it is safe to outside. As long as you are safe, encourage that. Go outside and watch this event. Here we go, so, lets talk the Solar Eclipse in the movement of astronomical body that passes in front of another. If you have been watching along with us, you know nasa is using todays transit to study the sun. We use similar transits to study planets outside our solar system. While a total Solar Eclipse is a rare opportunity to learn about our son, nasas mission has been studying distant stars for planetary transit. Using a spacebased telescope, scientists from Research Center have been measuring the changes in the brightness of stars if their planets orbit or transit in front of them. Kepler has confirmed more than 2500 x so planets, or planets beyond our solar system. Many are similar to earth in size and distance from their son. Havees using the data revealed a vast range of planet types and sizes, and future discoveries could help enable the search for life in the galaxy. Nasaer major effort at ames to use eclipses to study stars. It is a modified 747 aircraft that makes celestial observations in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Feet, it to 45,000 operates above 99 of the earths water vapor that absorbs most of the infrared light from space. One example of sophias unique qualities occurred when researchers recorded infrared imagery of plato as it eclipsed a distant star. What we learned from missions like kepler and sophia, could help us to better understand the n, ouries of our su galaxy, and our place within it. Thank you. We are here live in the college of charleston. [applause] it is about time for totality. Im here with my colleagues wayne brown and john you break and john. The crowd behind us. If you look up in the sky which i was doing before we came back here live, we are probably at about 90 totality. The good news from the weather standpoint is there is there are clouds. I see breaks in them just off to the south. Fingers crossed really tight that in those breaks will be will move over as we get into totality in a few minutes. What do you have to say . I want to thank you hey, man. You are the man. This is exciting. We have our glasses. We are excited here. Make some more noise [applause] we are having a ball, here. Here is still a lot more through the eyes of nasa we have the International Space station coming up, you do not want to miss it. [cheering] we have maybe a few more minutes to go before totality. , yeah. E wow. Even with the clouds, you can still see it. Pretty good. Do you guys see it . Yeah, a little bit. I think we have a break in the clouds. We have a couple minutes. This is amazing, right . This is amazing. Through the eyes of nasa. Two and a half minutes. [cheering] you have actually seen a total eclipse before . I have. It is amazing and spiritual. You depth thats we are just a small pebble in a highway of galactic. Viewing this right now, does it bring you back to that moment several years ago . It is different because i am here on american soil with you guys here. It is still breathtaking. Amazing. Getting better than that my friend. No. Almost. Here we go. Isnt there yet . Hard to tell. I think thats to some cloud cover. Its getting dark and getting cooler. The temperature has dropped. [applause] i dont think we are quite there yet. [applause] got some patches of lou just a little ways away. Patches of blue a little ways away. An amazing experience. It is safe to remove your glasses and look at the total eclipse. About a minute and a half of totality. It is safe to look at the total eclipse. But the glasses back on now. Glasses back on. That was the coolest thing ive ever seen in my life. Please replace your glasses, you need to have the glasses back on to view the sun. It was dark. Ready for the next one. How did it feel . Amazing. We got a sea of moving in and out between the clouds. Energyto experience the and in louisianas him feel all around us here today. This team, thank you. We made it happen. You dont know the half of it. Possibleen monitoring thunderstorms, which we have been having up to the north. ,uckily because of a sea breeze moisture coming in from the atlantic. They have been pushing those thunderstorms in the shore. We have been very lucky not to have any rain or thunderstorms. You are a true meteorologist. Ok. Expert extraordinaire. Even though we couldnt see it its what i really wanted to see. Darkness andd the change in temperature and the energy of the students. It has been an amazing experience. You have to feel good. This is a big tease for the next one. I can feel that shadow overhead. Feeling the change with temperatures and seeing the clouds moving differently. It was palpable. I could just feel the Energy Around here. Lets go to social media, over to you. The reactions have been huge. Fact that there was so much traffic on it. I want to show some of our graphics here. Heres a crescent shape in Seattle Washington taken by logan johnson. This is a pretty interesting image. The here is a totality view. Spectacular images from all over. Eclipse 2017, trending on twitter and other places. Some of it is shows how it really impacts people. We also saw it get dark here. It was like nothing we have ever experienced before. For those of you in the path of totality, we hope the views really hope you get really helped you get the sensation. This last one here is 99. 5 totality. Area we stillt have a partial of clips. People see the sun transit. Its an exciting time here. I think we have another view here seen from oregon. Is a nasa photographer who took this shot. I think thats just before the diamond ring pop up. It is per its a pretty spectacular shot. A quick question, look at some of these here. A lot of these are questions coming in from the eclipse viewing. What were your reactions as you are watching it . What is the sensation having the totality behind you . This is my first total Solar Eclipse. A partial watching Solar Eclipse back home in puerto rico. This was amazing. The darkness that was around us. Knowing that its day. Rush areazed that the it was really powerful. Im glad it cool down a lot. But the weather, its amazing. My second one. But sharing it with you guys, this is very cool and memorable. Seven years is another one . We have one in south america. Certainly one for the history books. The Solar Eclipses traveling over the atlantic ocean. Let me turn to you, how far is it going to go . It has another 3700 miles to travel. Its going to end off the coast of africa in sierra leone. Ands where night giddens we have a ways to go. Maybe you are going to see more of its two. The coast guard is five miles from charleston. I have been talking about this. Television, we have been bringing you unique images, reaction from all over the country. You a viewbringing from one place no one else can go, the International Space station. We will see how the experience this from space. See continue to continue to use safe wearing viewing glasses, methods and everything in between. Now we are going to my colleague karen foxx. We have been having a ball out here. Everybody had a great time. If you questions for the people who were here. Tell me your name. And what year are you . Chose to be here . I love the school. Since i could read ive been taking out astronomy books. Its amazing. What did you experience when you watched the eclipse . This is what you read in books, this is the kind of thing you think wow if that happens to me i dont even know what i would do. It happens. You say you have been studying space since you are young. Are you studying science . The plan was to do a double major of astronomy. Hopefully maybe do some of that work myself one day. We will look for you. Else, do youmebody want to come on up . Come on over. Is amanda. Im a junior in college. I know you didnt ask that. I was good ask that, you are like a mind reader. I felt a total unity with the world. I did. What are you going to do with your eclipse glasses now . I think maybe a souvenir for my grandchildren. Going to be like this is where i was on august 21, 2017. She summed it up pretty well. Fantastic, thank you so much. With more back later conversations from the college. Good to see the young. At todaysa look event. We will learn more about how the astronauts view todays eclipse. Only here are we bringing you the International Space station live traveling at 17,500 Miles Per Hour. Wem the Johnson Space center have Mission Control. Over to you. Welcome to Mission Control in houston. Of the residents International Space station flew over seven canada south of hudson bay out an altitude of 252 statute miles with a very unique view of today Solar Eclipse. We will be talking with the crew 18 minutes from now and sharing some of that unique video with you. It was spectacular i must tell you. And digital still imagery throughout the course of the first two or three passes the station is making over the eclipse throw the course of the day today, that has been posted on social media and will continue to be posted as the day wears on. We are looking for to talking with the crew and getting their impressions and thoughts as they passed over the eclipse about 40 minutes or so ago. Back to you in just a few minutes with the crew of exhibition 52. We have another unique view from space, imagery from nasas dynamic observatory. It is also about to see in a clips. Alex, tell us a little bit about it. Fleets one of nasas that gives us an unprecedented view of the sun. It shows as 10 different wavelengths of light in the same time. Schilling was the extreme ultraviolet light. We can see all the dynamic phenomenon that is happening. Putting down almost two terabytes of data per day, giving us the unbelievable views of solar prominences, solar and all of the activity and son that drives space weather. Its just an amazing mission. See the images from the sun that you can actually understand the origins of space weather. Its like downloading more than one million pictures per day, thats how much ada. Back to going to go karen, who has a pretty important person with her. Back and i have mike with me, a former nasa astronaut who is on the Space Shuttle flight. Hello everyone out there on nasa tv. Tell me, was this your first eclipse . This was my first eclipse. I think one that passed by my neighborhood when i was a kid. This has been the first eclipse i have been a part of. We will if we can get the next one. Didnt live up to what you are expecting . There was certainly a lot of excitement. It came at the right time. I think all the science assets and resources trying to collect data, a lot of excitement throughout the country. A little too much cloud coverage in South Carolina. Maybe we could have gotten a better view but it could have gotten a lot worse. It was really cool to be here. I could see it and i could feel it with the temperature and here it with the excitement of the student crowd we had here. It isl me about what like, something the rest of us have not been able to see, seeing earth from space. The earth from space is the most beautiful thing i have ever seen. It really is beyond words. Its a look into paradise. Were very lucky to be here. On the lucky things we had here, we had an atmosphere that keeps us alive and water that keeps us alive here on our planet. Field thatagnetic keeps is protected from solar radiation. But we have a moon and a son. The same size in the sky. We get a chance to have Solar Eclipses, which other planets do not. We are lucky for a lot of reasons. The beauty of the planet and the sense of clockwork of this dance that goes on between the earth the sun and the moon, you see that in space. As that steadily rotates, it is this clockwork going on. Clockwork with the moon involved, getting in the path of the sun and all of us lining up perfectly together. Its that clockwork that amazes me. It doesnt disappoint you. It has been going on for billions of years. And the seat down on earth is cool as well. What about 2024 . Was it coming that your . Thats going to go up from texas through maine. Ill go. Thank you. The entire United States has experienced a Solar Eclipse. Lets see what people are saying. We just captured a few reactions and wanted to show those to you here with some graphics. Game day today. Some shout outs on the broadcast. This is another one of our users. Just some awesome photos taken across the internet. Some trending hashtags out there. Some amazing photos taken from the public. It really looks like legit stuff all over the internet. Heres another one of our users. The second one i have seen a my lifetime, awesome. Heres another one. We are not thinking the clouds in charleston South Carolina. Enough you cant see the partial clips through the clouds. Heres another one on twitter. Very weird to be in a darkened home with not so much daylight. The sun is still shining outside. Heres another one. Honestly was better than i thought. That is one thing we are seeing. Everybody knew this was happening. Experience, a lot of folks werent necessarily anticipating that. Be really heartwrenching and scary a little bit and emotional and spectacular. Heres another one. Any other day out be concerned if i saw a lot of people on the roof of a parking garage. Today not so much. Heres the last one i want to show you all. This sort of celestial event that really has a big impact, we look at the sun every day. Its a constant for us. To be up scared feels a little bit unnatural. Thanks everyone for summoning your questions. We really appreciate it. It has been spectacular for all of us. Thats the great thing about social media. Its just so awesome when they post those things. Support ande your keep those images coming in. Witnessed a total Solar Eclipse. Its incredible to think how they are using advanced tools to image those a clips. The cameras that people use that we have now, i think people used to draw them. Lets take a little history lesson. Theooking at the sun and eclipse is the beginning of modern astronomy. Before we had cameras people true this by hand. Phenomenon was first seen in an image. Whatu look at this image youre seeing is images from 1869 showing you the corona drawn by hand. Before we had cameras we discovered helium on the sun. I was done during a total Solar Eclipse. We even verify general relativity in 1919. Is hundred image years before we can actually see it with a satellite. Amazing. I want to do something fun here. For the Young Students out there and the future generation of scientists. As i thought alex earlier he is one of the coolest looking scientists. He has something even cooler. Yet the show him the shoes. Flame shoes. How cool is that . Into physics and the sun . I have been interested in astronomy all my life. Seen things like star trek and carl sagan. When i was studying astrophysics graduate school maigret graduate school my professor said you ought to look at the sun. It is close and some thing we can study in incredible detail and that is something you can use as a tool to study the rest of the universe. That is when i learned we can learn so much about our universe, why we are here, just by looking at our closest son our closest start the sun. This is why scientists are so excited about. Eclipses. Thean see the region of sun, in visible light, without own eyes, that we cant even see from space. I understand you are cap lever and i know you have a fantastic story to tell. We are i am having fun. The students have been fantastic. We have more students here. Can you tell me your name . Nicole. Tommy your year and what you are majoring in. I am a senior. I want to do conversation work with endangered species and fragile habitats. Was this your first total Solar Eclipse . Yes. . What did you think . It was awesome. What did you think was happening . It was surreal. I do not know what was going on. I do not expect the lights to come on. How about the rest of you, how will was your experience . Unreal. I will never see it again. You are going to see it in 2024. Really . Where at . Its from texas to maine. Do you think he will start traveling for them . Not. Obably it is kind of a onceinalifetime kind of thing. Im going to ask you my favorite question. What is the music you associate with the sun and space and the eclipse . The dark side of the men. Of the moon. Comes the sun, Doo Doo Doo Doo thank you very much. Having a great time. People are beginning to leave the quad and moving on and going on to start school tomorrow. Was this the best start of school ever . Yes, definitely. It was awesome. We have one more person. Do you want to come over . Come on. Tell me about what you experienced, what did you expect . I expected it to get dark but i did not expect the temperature to change and get so cold. I felt the same way. I kept thinking it was going to rain. It never did. What are you going to do with your ex youre a clips your eclipse glasses . Maybe put them in a scrapbook. If you keep them pristine you can use them again. Fantastic. Anybody here a science major . You are . Look at your shirt. Look at your fantastic shirt. Tell me about your shirt. I dont remember where i got this but it is constellations. It seemed appropriate. I agree. What kind of a science major are you . Geology and biology. Did this inspire you . Yes. Really amazing. Thank you very much. I am so glad you were all here. We are going to hand it back to duane brown. Thank you. The kids and our future scientists are important. I know the audience wants to hear your story. It is amazing. Tell us the story. I was interested in science since i was at kid. Since i was a kid. I travel to florida and i was six years old. I went to the Kennedy Space center and i saw the Amazing Things that nasa had. I wanted to work for nasa one day. Coming from puerto rico, i had to work hard. Here i am, i work really hard, and it has been an amazing experience. Oh my goodness. Im going to be here. Ladies and gentlemen, we have been talking about this. It is time to go back to the Johnson Space center. Not yet. So, what we are going to do is we are going to come back here. I love Live Television because now we can talk about cats. I am a cat lover. I love cats. I have always had caps. My wife has cats. Theyreat thing about it is are such great companions and i do a lot of traveling for nasa. It is convenient to have a cat because they let you go away, come back, they are still glad to see you, but they do not need as much care as a dog. For all the work i have done and all the time i have spent out studying the sun, cats have always been there for me. Two questions. Advice for becoming a scientist . Study. Simple but keep going to school. Try as many Different Things as you can. Experience different opportunities, internships. Theives you a chance to see breadth of scientific technology. Keep motivated. Like alex said, do the internships, try Different Things. You never know exactly what you want. To be happen happy, you have to find that calling. In the kidshe folks and the students watching. , they are amazing. We will hear more about them. Hour, u. S. Past crewmembers had a chance to view this phenomenon from a unique vantage point. Lets go to the iss Flight Control room. Back to you with more. Thanks, duane. Millions of people have witnessed this amazing event threat the day today. International space station, members of the expedition 52 group have had a unique sola steel front row seat sola steel front row seat. The International Space station flew miles above the earth over southern canada as it made its way south of hudson bay with a tremendous view of the moon shadow against the earth. The men covering 44 the moon covering 44 of the sun. Crew were glued to the windows of the International Space station with an hd video camera, with eight narmada of digital still cameras to capture every moment. At this hour aboard the International Space station in the Destiny Laboratory of the complex, are four of the members of the expedition 52 crew, peggy whitson, jack fisher, and Flight Engineer pollen is poorly of the European Space agency. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, it has been an exciting day. We had the opportunity to see the cuts from here. Start with you. You were in the cupola with an hd video camera looking out at they shadowere appeared capturing spectacular video we are going to replay in a second. What were your thoughts and impressions as the station flew over the shadow of the earth . I had seen pictures from previous eclipse, i had underestimated what this would look like. This was much darker than i gave it credit for being. Unfortunately, it was kind of edge of theb, the art from our view. Several hundred miles away. Impressive towas be able to see that arc spot as we passed by. That dark spot as we passed by. Randy, you have been looking forward to this event. Your thoughts and impressions of the eclipse. You shot digital still imagery of it. What does the Solar Eclipse due to a human being . What does it do to a human being in terms of understanding our place in the universe . Ice that is certainly a big question. You look down at the size of the shadow, we have gotten used to the scope and scale from what the earth looks like an understanding how many people would be affected by it. Wend of mine mentioned few looking at it, just a hundred years ago, human beings would not have known that this was coming. Here you are looking up and all of the sun is disappearing. One of the thoughts for all human existence is, the gods must be angry at us. Now we have the ability not only to know it is coming, people are excited about it. Be under theed to umbra. And to make it a celestial event. To witness it from above was a special. It represents how far we have come with the technology we have. We are doing more than 250 different experiments, and working with international teams. Look at where we are at. I look forward to the next time we have full eclipse, taking pictures from further away. For jack fisher, it is good to see you this afternoon. You sent a picture or this morning of this raft of cameras that were laid out in the destiny lab ready to rock and roll to capture every second. Ome sauce times two . Yes, it was. This has been a huge coronation effort. Comrade randy has been in charge of planning where all of us would be. And the little orchestra of which window, which camera. He did a great job. I was supposed to be taking off a scratch pain right now, but due to the lighting and how we are going about it, we do not need to. I got lucky and got to join all these folks for it. Said, she underestimated it. I definitely did. Just judging from the pictures, that spot was a lot darker and a lot larger than i thought it would be. Thend of was sitting in segment at the window thinking kind of like, this is like a snipe hunt. I think someone is pulling a joke on me. All of a sudden, this huge black shadow was going across the earth. It was amazing and cool to see from this vantage point. Timestely, awesome sauce three. Three. Chocolate awesome sauce with a side of awesome sauce. It was awesome. Remember six we do years ago, may of 2011 when you departed the International Space station to come home from your last flight, you took that signature picture of the shuttle docked at the station with all the other International Partner components and vehicles linked up. How did todays experience compare with that moment . Six years ago, i was alone for theking pictures team. Katie was taking timing and telling me. And a me with one camera video camera taking pictures. Here, today, we had as you saw from the photo that jack sent this motto this morning, equipment, we had multiple places where we are flying back and forth from the station up and down. It was a completely different orchestrated system. I was impressed, too, by the shadow passing by. Had seen pictures as a kid, i always thought the umbra would be squared. But it was not. It was kind of a smudge. It was interesting to see this with your own eyes. Randy, let me go back to you for one second to follow up on what paolo touched upon. It must have been a photo feeding frenzy on board during those first two passes. You have one more pass to go coming up shortly. Give us a sense of that choreography that your crew explained. Was it everybody elbowing each other away from the windows . Certainly everyone has their favorite things they wanted to do. We had to divide up the task we could not have everyone doing the same thing. We took the still shots and said we are going to shoot this particular type and this speed from this particular person, so we are going to vary to make sure we capture the images as best we could. We had aowded because bunch of cameras, a bunch of people. The big thing was to not to bump the video cameras. When you see all the video and pictures, it is not any one person. Crewmates. That is where the credit goes because everyone did their part, not doing what they wanted to do which is the definition of teamwork. That is why we are here. Peggy, finally for you, you are less than two weeks away returning to earth after a most 10 months on the station. You have logged more days in space than any other astronaut. How did this show compared with some other milestones you have witnessed and experienced during your three longduration missions . Think having the privilege of being on three different longduration missions has given me a lot of interesting experiences. This is just another one to put in the history books for my memory. I really enjoyed seeing this. I think may more than i expected to. Piece,ust another another memory, another special event, another special day of this fantastic experience of being in space. Charleston, a colleague of yours is standing by. He has a question for you. Hey, peggy. Paolo, comrade, randy. I got to be in the path of totality below you. It was pretty awesome here. It made me think of some of the cool things we see of the timing of because make dance of the universe we see. For each of you, could you describe something you have seen peggy, you have been up there more than anyone. This that youto see from we cant see on the ground . Well, i feel like the whole experience of being here, of is on a daily spaces daily basis, very special. There are special parts of each and every day. I do think this one is very nice. We have seen incredible auroras lately. Seeing Scientific Research getting completed. Some cool Research Getting completed. You cant beat the view during a spacewalk. It is just a piece of this huge puzzle of why being in space is so beautiful. Back here in Mission Control for you, an amazing day and an amazing opportunity to share a few minutes for the crew. With of the crew. I would like to thank peggy, jack, paolo, and commander for their time. And for you peggy, and jack, and your crewmates, we hope you have a soft landing. To that, wefly safe will toss it back to you at eclipse central and carl in charleston, South Carolina. Thanks, rob. It is good to be part of the nasa team. Thank you for having me. Mike, we got you here, man. This is not your first eclipse. My first one. I never saw one in space and never won on the ground. This is my first one in space or on the ground. I know you have been asked the same question, how did you feel . Lot of people excited. This is one of the bigger events we have had for a wild. Something everyone can get excited about. A lot of people flocked to the path of totality. I felt there was a lot of excitement for it. I wished the weather was better. We had some clouds in the way. Itn with that, it got dark, got cold. When you see things in space, you do not hear anything. You are in your spacesuit and you can feel the warmth of the sun coming or the warmth or the darkness coming around the planet. You can see the terminator between night and day. We areeminders of what about, what our fight is about. Here, i was able to feel the coolness. It got really dark. From was a lot of sound the tears of the students from the cheers of the students at the college. It was good to be able to share it. They are using into that. This is a nice way to welcome the back to school. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for letting me on, i appreciate it. Always. We are going to throw it to karen. Yes, i do. I have john who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the college of charleston. Hello, john. Nice to see you. Is this your first eclipse . This is my third totality. I saw one in 1972 in canada and one off the coast of africa in 1973. Have you ever done any science during an eclipse . I am mostly and a eclipse watcher. I was young. Those two eclipses is what got me into astronomy. Tell me what you did to prepare for today. We had tremendous support from the faculty and staff at the college of charleston. They put together an event around the eclipse. Eventorning, we had an where we introduced the students and they are kicking off their four years in college with the eclipse. One of the best ways if there is ever a sign of things to come, this is probably it. I sell you out with telescopes. Where people looking through them . We tried to set those up. I am not sure how successful they were because of the cloud cover. We were able to use indirect pinhole methods. These devices to students around the yard and they seem to enjoy it. It is nice when you hear them say, cool, can i take a picture . Life has changed. That with your students. Where there any of your older students seen around here . Studentsf our advanced were working with faculty members from the department and went to different sites and locations around the city and county. They were covering city parks, state parks, pretty much anywhere they could get immigration did get a location. We had 16 sites. We took the distributor approach. I am here almost by default. Everyone else chose a place to go. When the college decided to make a big deal about it, i decided i can suffer and be a good sport and to show you what being a good sport means, i had to wear this hat. [laughter] you look fantastic. It is great. What was the craziest question you got about the eclipse . I would not say it is the craziest thing i got asked, but i know a few of the staff was telling me because this coincided with the move in day, apparently we had parents who were frustrated with the fact that they were trying to move their kids and but they had no hotels to stay and because everything was packed. They asked some of the staff if they could move the time of the eclipse. [laughter] it happened whether or not we wanted it. I agree it has been hard finding a place to stay. The college will be happiest things calmed down. And you get into your year. Tell me about more, do you have plans for taking this eclipse into the classroom . I am curious if you think whether this will kindle excitement and gets new science students . Absolutely. Are fewthere opportunities that we have where science comes to the public like this event. I think nasa has done a tremendous job advertising this across the country. As far as it goes here, we have the advantage of having public and alexby pol arts young. Alex is going to show up in my class tomorrow and kick the year off. We are excited about being able to merge this in the beginning of this clear. I know nasa is excited about hoping that the information we have been sharing gets people excited. There have been events everywhere. This is our last stop along the way. Tell me, do you have plans for 2024 . I would like to say yes. But, i need to relax in this one first. Like everyone here, i think this everyone has done a tremendous job putting on a great show and making all the as manyto tie in students and the public as possible. I think we are ready to take a short breather before we move on. Let me ask another question. You told me that you work with nasa on a regular basis. What do you work with . I study Cosmic Energy bursts. I work with data. I was a team member have worked with swift data. I have a number of collaboration summit. Fantastic. It has been great talking to you. We are going to go back to duane brown. Thanks. Had to the professor had will probably be on social media. From coast to coast, we have tracked in the Solar Eclipse over the past three hours. Thousands of people have total Solar Eclipse. When day turns into night and back again. You the mostught spectacular images so that the millions of you watching from home could also witness these aweinspiring moments through the eyes of nasa. I cant wait to see what observations from today will told, as scientists continue analyze the images, we will still learn about the images of the eclipse about the sun and how it affects our daily lives. Your feelings, your thoughts . An amazing been experience. The clouds did not let us see corona, but it has been an amazing experience. We got all the experience of the darkness, the cold, the cooler temperatures. It is not over yet. The next eclipse will be in argentina. Alex, your thoughts . This was amazing. As she said, too bad we did not get more to see the corona. This whole experience, it was him or it was an immersive experience. Getting to feel the excitement. Being able to work with you all, to share with and this with millions of people, that is what i live for. Getting to share the beauty, the wonder of nature with everyone wepossibly can, and to know have been able to help millions of people both in the past and outside the path share in this human experience, is really what i am glad to go home and know at the end of the day. And, i also know that i get to see another one besides the one in argentina and chile, we will have another one in this country. 2024. It is going to go from mexico, texas, into the ohio river valley, upstate new york and new england. And it crosses carbondale. For those who got to see the one there can see another one in less than 375 years. Im sure the hotels have already filled up. I expect they have. John, i have to come to you. I know the conversation and images, your thoughts . , from this point of view listening to all this, it is fantastic. I think one of the things that was most interesting to me was the fact that the volume of people. The broke our records for most streaming event we have ever had. Nasa does Amazing Things. We fly human beings into space. We show images from the hubble space telescope. There is constantly Awesome Program from nasa. For this event to eclipse, pun intended, is pretty spectacular. I have a couple photos i want to show. If you could pull those appear this one is from the space station from palo. He posted this on his twitter account. Pretty freaking cool. You can see the darkness of the moon shadow across the planet. One more photo i want to show you. This is a fun one. City timesm new york square. This broadcast was all over the country. People were texting me and saying, i see you on tv. I am showing it to my kids and classrooms. It was not just people viewing were also there classrooms broadcasting across the country. Hopefully, we reached a lot of kids and inspired them. That is what it is about. Inspiring the next generation. What a day. We want to thank the wonderful city of charleston and especially the college of charleston for hosting nasa eclipse central. This program could not have been done without the invaluable work in coronation from our National Science organization, stakeholders, and many more numerous to name. You know who you are. Thank you. You,ly, i want to thank the public, the audience watching this program across the nation, staying with us, we brought it to you. Thank you, thank you, for your support, your questions, your thoughts. Help bring the eclipse to the nation. Alex, john, sean, karen, what a day. An amazing day. 2024 . Are we going to be there again . Yes. Lets do this again. In 2024. L see you guys thank you for watching nasa tv where it is through the nasa for the eyes of nasa, you experience this. The story does not end here. The story does not end here. Many more images will be coming out of in the next several days. They will be awesome, too. Stay tuned and visit our website. Hanging out with john, i am Dewayne Brown p or for the team here, charleston signing off. Thank you for watching. Here is a tweet from nasa. Thanks for joining us to experience a clips 2017, join us again into 224. Check out our image gallery, you can link to pictures from the Solar Eclipse at nasa. Gov eclipsephotos. We will bring you more of the highlights from todays solar tv. Pse from nasa at 90 clock eastern, President Trump will lay out his military strategy for afghanistan. That is live. After that, we will take your phone calls and get your reaction to the president s speech. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up tuesday morning, johns hopkins