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Astronomers and
chased a solar eclipse across the
on Monday. This occurred while millions of people in Canada, the USA and Mexico gazed into the sky to catch a
of a rare celestial event - a total eclipse of the sun. The sun, moon and Earth aligned to block the
of the sun's disc. NASA equipped its high-
WB-57 planes with special sensors and instrumentation to gather
from the unique solar event. Pilots navigated a path within the eclipse, 15,240 meters high, to get a view of the corona – the sun's outer
. NASA also fired rockets into Earth's
atmosphere, known as the
, to try to unravel some of the sun's greatest
.
