We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse

Summary by Krater

The creator travels to Spain to witness the total solar eclipse and explains the orbital mechanics and atmospheric physics behind eclipse phenomena, shadow bands, and historical solar discoveries.

From the video

Answers: Why do total solar eclipses happen and what causes eclipse shadow bands?

• total solar eclipse
• eclipse shadow bands
• solar corona
• orbital mechanics of eclipses
• heliophysics

What it concludes

• The northern hemisphere consistently gets about 15% more total solar eclipses than the southern hemisphere.
• The northern summer coincides with Earth being further from the sun, increasing total solar eclipse frequency in the north, while the southern summer coincides with Earth being closer to the sun, favoring annular eclipses.
• Every solar eclipse is accompanied by a lunar eclipse either two weeks before or after.
• Solar eclipse shadow bands are caused by the refraction of narrow beams of light passing through varying temperature and density layers of Earth's atmosphere, analogous to starlight twinkling.
• Jules Janssen's spectroscopic discovery of helium during the 1868 total solar eclipse proved that an eclipse could lead to the discovery of both a real element and a previously mistaken one.