Southern Research Specialist To Collect Solar Eclipse Data From Stratosphere

By Southern Research

When a total solar eclipse unfolds over the United States on Monday, Southern Research communications engineer Donald Darrow will have a front-row seat for the spectacular event 50,000 feet above Earth.

Darrow will be aboard one of two NASA WB-57 high-altitude research planes flying in the stratosphere that day on a groundbreaking mission to capture the clearest views ever produced of the sun’s outer atmosphere and the first thermal images revealing temperature shifts on the surface of Mercury.

“It certainly will be an exciting mission,” Darrow said. “I’m going to have the best view of probably anyone on the planet.” Darrow is serving as the lead special equipment operator, or SEO, on the mission. His job is to operate a unique instrument developed by Southern Research called AIRS/DyNAMITE, which functions like an airborne telescope with special capabilities.

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