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All the way to Russia to watch total solar eclipse

NEW DELHI: Five Indian students have been selected to take part in the weeklong solar expedition, “Heliodyssey-2008”, in Russia beginning July 27.

The school children from Delhi, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu will embark on the journey to view the total solar eclipse at Novosibirsk in Russia on August 1. The event is aimed at inculcating a scientific temperament and popularising celestial events among people across the country.

The five winners for the Russia trip -- Shivansh Chaturvedi (Delhi), Kaustubh Bansal (Delhi), V. Vismayaa (Tamil Nadu), Charchit Gaur (Rajasthan) and Utkarsh Agrawal (Rajasthan) -- will be performing a number of scientific experiments with a team of scientists and astronomers during the celestial event.

The scientific expedition is being organised by the Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators to dispel superstitions and myths surrounding the total solar eclipse that has been looked upon as something mysterious and a bad omen in our society.

SPACE president C.B. Devgun says: “The five students are ambassadors of the new generation of children who will carry forward our rich scientific knowledge to create a new India which thinks scientifically. ‘Heliodyssey’ is a project of SPACE for tracking the total solar eclipses across the world and performing experiments. The students will not only get a chance to represent their schools and themselves internationally, the exposure will also open their horizon to scientific research.”

In the project, 100 school students from across the country got selected through an online exam conducted on May 10. The project received an overwhelming response from students of Class VI to XII across 21 States. Of the 100 selected students, the top five will travel to Novosibirsk to view and document the total solar eclipse.

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