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Your solar eclipse experience can help science

A smartphone is all you need to collect data during the eclipse

photo illustration of an eclipse on a smartphone

SCIENCE SCREENTIME Anyone can conduct citizen science on the go during the Aug. 21 solar eclipse thanks to a handful of smartphone apps.

smartphone: Pexels (CC0), eclipse image: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

By Maria Temming

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