Citizen CATE 2024

Led by Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project will place 35 teams in the eclipse path from Texas to Maine to capture the corona in polarized light. Light travels in waves, but those waves can be oriented in different directions, or polarization angles. Caspi explains that light we see from the corona is sunlight that gets bounced around by the corona before it reaches our eyes. Citizen CATE 2024 is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Read more: Music credit: “The Intelligent Plant“ by Laurent Dury [SACEM] from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA Producer: Joy Ng (NIA) Videographers: Joy Ng (NIA) and Dan Zietlow (Citizen CATE) For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit This video can be freely shared and downloaded at While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit