Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, above the clouds off Iceland…

Airborne observatory improves views of solar corona during cloud-covered eclipse phys.org

Heavy cloud off Iceland would have wrecked the eclipse observation, so the team flew above it: a WB-57 jet at 50,000 feet chasing the Moon's shadow, recording the solar corona in nine wavelengths from visible to infrared. Ground observers under the same clouds saw nothing.

From the edition published .