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Proba-3 Mission: 50 Eclipses Transform Solar Observations
12/18/2025
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- The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has produced more than 50 artificial solar eclipses since its December 2024 launch, filling a key gap in observing the Sun's inner corona and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) origins.
- Its positioning enables continuous, detailed imaging of CMEs.
- Andrei Zhukov notes this continuous observation of CMEs is a major advance.
- The mission has about 250 hours of data, equal to 6,000 Earth-based eclipse campaigns.
