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It’s all very well setting up a record observation time, but that wasn’t really the main objective for the scientists who set off on this adventure. One might say that it was only a secondary result. It was the Sun and its corona that really interested us. So what discoveries were made thanks to the three exceptional circumstances we benefited from: the long period of totality, the slow scan of the chromosphere just before and just after totality, and the excellent access to infrared emissions from such a high flight path?
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Léna, P. (2015). Seventy-Four Minutes of Observation, but What Gain for Science?. In: Racing the Moon’s Shadow with Concorde 001. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21729-1_6
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