According to the official website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), three sounding rockets will be launched during the eclipse to study how the decrease in sunlight affects the Earth's atmospheric layer called the "ionosphere".
The article emphasized that solar eclipses give scientists the opportunity to study the Sun and how it interacts with the Earth in unique ways.
NEXT ANNULAR ECLIPSE IN 2026
NASA will share live images from Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kirbyville, Texas; and White Sands, New Mexico starting at 11:30 a.m. local time on the day of the eclipse, NASA official Kelly Korreck told CNN.
The next total solar eclipse to be seen in these states will be in 2046, Korreck said.
"It will be a long time before we see this phenomenon again," Korreck said, urging US citizens to go to places where the eclipse can be seen in full.
Peg Luce, Director of NASA's Heliophysics Office, said the dazzling celestial event could be watched by millions.
The eclipse, which will take place when the Moon is at the farthest point in its orbit from Earth, is called the "ring of fire" because of the ringed appearance that occurs when it fails to completely cover the Sun.
ANNULAR ECLIPSE WILL BE VISIBLE IN THE WESTERN STATES OF THE USA
In the US, the eclipse will begin at 9:13 a.m. Pacific time and will be visible from the states of Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. The eclipse will also be visible from parts of California, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona.
After being observed in the United States, the eclipse will be visible from Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Belize, Honduras, Panama, and Panama, and will end in Natal, on the Atlantic coast of Brazil.
While the annular solar eclipse will take place in various stages, it is reported that first, when the Moon starts to pass in front of the Sun, there will be a partial eclipse in the shape of a crescent moon.
1 hour and 20 minutes after the start of the partial eclipse, the Moon will pass directly in front of the Sun, forming the "ring of fire".
Another partial eclipse will occur before the Moon ends its journey across the Sun and disappears from view.
