After the millennium, the longest ‘annular’ eclipse, the Indian Space Agency is ready to start on five missiles on Friday to study the effects, IANS reported.
P Ratnakar Rao, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) project director, was quoted as saying: “Five rockets will be launched on Friday among 1 and 3 to explore the effects of solar eclipse in the lower and middle levels in the feeling.the report says Rohini (RH) sounding rockets are shot from the Thumb Equatorial Rocket Launch Station (TERLS) of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC) of ISRO in the Kerala capital.
Of the five missiles, will be three in RH 300MK-II series and two in the RH 200-series bring scientific instruments to calculate the effect of the eclipse of the Earth’s impression and ionosphere, “the report states.
“The effect is exact by the instruments under the missiles’ flight lane after they burn into the sky, and their data have been followed up on our Space Center by they throw themselves into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean was” Rao quoted saying.
From its Space Port in Sriharikota Space Agency will also launch a large rocket Rohini (RH 560 MK II) between 1 and 2 to a maximum elevation of 548 km to collect more data.Thursday ISRO had launched three rockets 1 to 3 for a maximum height of 70 km and 116 km to collect data during a normal day for contrast with data collected during the eclipse.
“We want to contrast data on normal days of data during and straight away after the eclipse to study the distinction, Rao was quoted as saying.
Earlier in the day, solar eclipse was seen in the southern states will start 11:17 and lasts 1:30.
The eclipse of the sun compact to a burning ring around a black disc also enter the record books as the greatest “annular” eclipse of 1000 years. This experience, which lasts for eleven minutes and eight seconds, a record that is unbeatable in another millennium.
