Clouds for Your Eclipse? NASA Experiment Will Fly Kite to Rise Above
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NASA Takes Solar Eclipse to New Heights by Way of a Kite!

NASA will fly a kite to observe the total solar eclipse on April 20. In a bid to combat the age-old nemesis of astronomers - pesky clouds - NASA has taken solar eclipse observations to new heights, quite literally, by flying a kite! University of Hawaii astronomer, Shadia Habbal, had been foiled by cloudy skies several times during her expedition to study the Sun's outer atmosphere, so she devised a plan to avoid the same fate on her next mission.
by Jace Dela Cruz
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