NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Agencies to Brief Plans for April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse – NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration – Inergency
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Millions of people across North America will experience a rare celestial sight on Monday, April 8: a total solar eclipse. NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will host a media briefing with other government agencies at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 26, at NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters in Washington.
The briefing will air live on NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration+, NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Television, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration TV through a variety of platforms including social media.
Over the course of about an hour, viewers in 15 states across the United States will experience up to four and half minutes of darkness when the Moon moves fully in front of the Sun, revealing the Sun’s faint outer atmosphere: the corona. Outside of the path of totality, people in the contiguous United States will have the opportunity to see a partial eclipse, when the Moon covers only a portion of the Sun. Learn how to safely view this celestial event on NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s eclipse website.
NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is joining with scientific and transportation agencies to engage the public, share safety information, and conduct science during the upcoming total solar eclipse. Representatives from these agencies will brief media about plans for the solar eclipse.
Briefing participants include:
- NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator Bill Nelson
- NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy
- NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Associate Administrator Jim Free
- Kelly Korreck, eclipse program manager, NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters
- Shailen Bhatt, administrator, Federal Highway Administration
- Elsayed Talaat, director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Weather Observations
Media interested in attending in person must RSVP by 5 p.m., Monday, March 25, to Tiernan Doyle at tiernan.doyle@nasa.gov. All media interested in participating by phone must request details no later than two hours before the start of the event. NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s media accreditation policy is online.
On April 8, NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will host live coverage of the eclipse on NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration+, the agency’s website, and the NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration app beginning at 1 p.m. NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will also stream the broadcast live on its Facebook, X, YouTube, and Twitch social media accounts, as well as have a telescope-only feed of eclipse views on the NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration TV media channel and YouTube.
To learn more about the total solar eclipse, visit:
go.nasa.gov/Eclipse2024
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Karen Fox
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
karen.c.fox@nasa.gov
Sarah Frazier
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
202-853-7191
sarah.frazier@nasa.gov
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