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    Citizen Scientists Join Forces To Document Eclipse

    Aug 15, 2017 1 minute
    Earlier this summer, PSU students Rihana Mungin (from left), Harmony Ewing and Olea Stevens tested the type of weather balloon they'll use for the NASA-funded Eclipse Ballooning Project on Aug. 21. (Portland State University)

    The total solar eclipse next week might be the most studied disappearance of the sun ever, thanks in part to legions of citizen scientists. NASA, UC Berkeley and other institutions are recruiting volunteers to aid more than half a dozen different science experiments tied to the celestial

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