If you won't be in the path of the total solar eclipse on August 21, don't worry. NASA, in partnership with the two-year-old online video platform Stream, will have you covered.
In what could be the space agency's most-watched livestream on record since the landing of the Mars Curiosity rover in 2012, more than 50 high altitude balloons with video equipment attached to them will beam back crisp, live images of the eclipse from an altitude as high as 100,000 feet, according to a press release from the company.
The Curiosity rover landing garnered 100 million views, Stream said. NASA refers to the livestream as a "Megastream," and will likely call on other views from its space-based solar observatories as well as Earth-bound telescopes to round out its complete, multi-platform coverage of the event. Read more...
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