Zones call 2027488000. And for those of you in the mountain and mask time zone, 027488001. Joining us first up from the Goddard Space Center Visitors Center is shawn goldman, a Research Space scientist for nasa. Good morning and welcome to the program. Shawn thank you. Host what are you looking for today . Guest im getting my daughter and going to enjoy the beauty of the eclipse. Even though im a scientist when Something Like this happens you enjoy the scenery because it will be awesome because no matter where you are in the United States youll get to join us which is special. Host walk us through the mechanics. Guest the moon will pass in front of the sun. Anywhere you are in the United States youll see a black disk from the moon moving across the disk of the sun. Well talk about it in a bit. You wear solar glasses when looking at it. When youre in the path of totality, moving from oregon to cape lookout, south carolina, and youll know if youre there, you probably made plans in advanc
Part of it across the whole country, learn about new things and feel the power of this solar system we live in. Host we had someone earlier talk about their interest in how the eclipse will affect gravity. What can be learned from this one event . Event,this particular and the right geometry, it thews us to see a part of solar atmosphere that we dont usually get to see, even with special spacecraft, so it gives on somethingnt eye that affects us daily. That is the physics we are trying to get our hands around. The earth responds in the earth in the path of totality. Ocean, vegetation, all that stuff responds. We will have observers across the country making measurements and watching the earthwork. These are some of the exciting aspects of what this eclipse across america can do for us. Includese technology hotair balloons and jet technology. We we have a limited have 11 satellites investigating this with air balloons and there will be the Solar Dynamics observatory. We will be watching
Host brian, thank you for joining us. Guest yes sir, great to be with you. An exciting day, today. Host what are you planning on doing with today . Guest i have a lot of grandchildren and this is the first day of school, so everybody has been busy, making cereal box viewing, the little indirect method of watching the eclipse and everybody is excited. It is going to pass through our and i think its is supposed to be a total. Clipse everybody is going to be excited and they will be coming at other schools to watch and i know there are millions of people that have actually gotten in their vehicles and driven through the path of total eclipse. Why do you think there is such great interest in this event . Reason, it is the encouraging for me to me for this reason because of the fascination people have with science and all things space. We have seen similar interest in the last few years when movies like the martian came out and interstellar and i think the American People are hungry for the
Host what is your favorite moment of the total Solar Eclipse and what are you looking forward to on monday . Happens when the sun is taken out by the moon, is the air begins to cool and the sky begins to darken, and what happens when the second contact occurs or the onset of totality, i am always impressed because from early times, people have been able to make calculations, protecting where and when this Solar Eclipse will occur. It is remarkable that mathematics and geography now are together in such a way that the precise spot on the earth are you can see the eclipse is known well in advance. That is impressive. Then the corona shows up, and that is a beautiful site. Sight. Ofis a national phenomenal spectacular proportions. Host what are you collecting when you observe this type of phenomenon . Guest we are looking to understand the energy input into the corona. The surface of the sun is 5600 interior of the sun where he is generated in a nuclear process, you would expect from dyna
Part of it across the whole country, learn about new things and feel the power of this solar system we live in. Host we had someone earlier talk about their interest in how the eclipse will affect gravity. What can be learned from this one event . Event,this particular and the right geometry, it thews us to see a part of solar atmosphere that we dont usually get to see, even with special spacecraft, so it gives on somethingnt eye that affects us daily. That is the physics we are trying to get our hands around. The earth responds in the earth in the path of totality. Ocean, vegetation, all that stuff responds. We will have observers across the country making measurements and watching the earthwork. These are some of the exciting aspects of what this eclipse across america can do for us. Includese technology hotair balloons and jet technology. We we have a limited have 11 satellites investigating this with air balloons and there will be the Solar Dynamics observatory. We will be watching