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photo collage of students viewing the ecliipse

Many students from Princeton Public Schools had the opportunity to see the partial eclipse on April 8, and the experience was enriched thanks to community partners, particularly Princeton University’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and their community outreach team.
 
“We are grateful to live in a community that values education and shares resources,” said Dr. Joy Barnes-Johnson, PPS Science Supervisor. “Working with the educational outreach team from IMAP during the partial eclipse was an exciting opportunity to expand our vision of supporting all PPS youth in STEM engagement.”
 
“With IMAP’s support we were able to encourage students to view the partial eclipse and to view it safely,” she added.
 
As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will explore and chart the very boundaries of the heliosphere – the bubble surrounding the Sun and planets inflated by the solar wind – and study how it interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.

Dr. Barnes-Johnson thanked Lindsay M. Bartolone, who is the IMAP Communications and Outreach Lead.
 
“I would also like to thank Steve Carson at Princeton Middle School and all our excellent PPS staff who encouraged students to safely view the eclipse,” said Dr. Barnes-Johnson, praising teachers at Princeton High School, PMS, and the four PPS elementary schools.
 
Princeton University's Professor David McComas leads the IMAP mission and an international team of 25 partner institutions. IMAP is the fifth mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Program portfolio of the Heliophysics Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
 
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland is managing the mission development, building the IMAP spacecraft, and providing the mission operation. The IMAP mission is made possible through the collaborative efforts of 19 domestic partners and 6 international partners.
 
Below: PHS students were able to safely view the partial eclipse using solar glasses.

photo collage of students viewing the ecliipse


 
 

 

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