On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:04:37 +0000,
kelleher.gerald@gmail.com (oriel36)
wrote:
A satellite travelling with the Earth around the Sun, creating permanent solar eclipse conditions,
When I read that, I pictured a satellite at the L1 point of the
Sun-Earth system, 1.5 million km away from Earth, and thus about nine
times the size of the Moon, in order to create a solar eclipse
somewhere on Earth permanently.
Of course, no such satellite exists. But a normal sized satelite, such
as the SOHO satellite at your link, can certainly, in the vacuum of
space, use a tiny occulting disk to create a permanent solar eclipse
for one of its cameras.
John Savard
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