India launches rockets to study eclipse
(CNN) January 14, 2010, By Harmeet Shah Singh
India is launching a series of rockets to study the impact of Friday's solar eclipse, a rare occurrence that will briefly reduce the sun to a blazing ring. The Indian Space Research Organization has already sent up three rockets, and at least five others are scheduled for launch during the eclipse, its spokesman, S. Satish, told CNN. Astronomers term the Friday phenomenon an annular eclipse, when the moon covers the center of the sun and not its edges. The Indian rockets will record changes the eclipse causes in the lower and middle atmosphere as it races from Africa to Asia, he said.
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