A pilot goes through a pre-flight safety inspection on a NASA WB-57 plane on March 27, 2024, in Houston.

A rare NASA WB-57 research plane was seen flying from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Bangor, Maine, while trailing behind another long-range government aircraft, a Gulfstream V, Flightradar24 data shows. 

According to a July 27 news release from NASA, researchers were using 360-degree cameras attached to scientific balloons — along with the high-altitude WB-57 aircraft — to capture images of the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, during the Aug. 12 eclipse over Iceland, Greenland and Spain. The highly anticipated solar event was livestreamed by the agency, gathering over 3.5 million views in........

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