Citizen CATE 2024

Led by Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project will place 35 teams in the eclipse path from Texas to Maine to capture the corona in polarized light.

Light travels in waves, but those waves can be oriented in different directions, or polarization angles. Caspi explains that light we see from the corona is sunlight that gets bounced around by the corona before it reaches our eyes.
Music credit: "The Intelligent Plant" by Laurent Dury [SACEM] from Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (NIA)
Videographers: Joy Ng (NIA) and Dan Zietlow (Citizen CATE)