Kartavya Kant Tiwari

The GOES-19 weather system's coronagraph CCOR-1 satellite recorded an unusual phenomenon on September 21, 2025. The Moon suddenly threw itself in front of the Sun in its orbit, and its relative course over the solar disk was oddly distorted. Contrary to typically straight line-shaped lineages, which must be seen in such captures, such curved lines baffled the scientists; however, it turns out, the cause is not the lunar delinquency, but the influence on the satellite. How GOES-19 Caught a Natural Eclipse According to NOAA, GOES-19 is equipped with an instrument called CCOR-1, which is normally fitted with the occulting disk that would normally block sunlight to enable it to observe the faint corona of the sun. However, this time the Moon itself came into play, creating an effect of a natural eclipse within the scope of vision of the instrument. Usually, the silhouette of the Moon moves in a straight line in the picture, but this time, it seemed to be in a zig-zag fashion. The root ...