The spectrum these teams
measure during the eclipse won't translate immediately to a measurement of the strength or shape of the magnetic field.
Not exact matches
Measuring the IR solar corona
during the 2017
eclipse.
To
measure the albedo of WASP - 12b the scientists observed the exoplanet in October 2016
during an
eclipse, when the planet was near full phase and passed behind its host star for a time.
For now, though, superstring theory lacks the sort of dramatic demonstration that propels radical theories into prominence, such as Einstein's famous precise prediction of how much starlight would be deflected when passing by the sun as
measured during a solar
eclipse.
During six minutes of a total solar
eclipse on May 29, 1919, Eddington
measured the positions of stars that appeared next to the blotted - out sun.
It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by
measuring,
during an
eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.
Fluctuations have since been
measured during around 20 total solar
eclipses, but the results still remain inconclusive.
Ultimately, MICHI on the TMT will be able to
measure the spatial variation of SO2 on Io both meridionally (with latitude) and zonally (with longitude), but critically as a function of local time and
during Jupiter
eclipses that are both strong functions of frost sublimation, and will allow us to determination of how much of Io's atmosphere is supported purely by sublimation and how much by volcanic activity.