<ul><li>The recent launch of European satellites designed to create artificial solar eclipses presents a significant leap in our understanding of the sun and its mysterious corona.</li><li>The Proba-3 mission offers extended study of the sun with two satellites flying in formation to simulate the effect of a total solar eclipse, providing up to six hours of 'on-demand' totality each time.</li><li>This new approach allows scientists to deeply research the sun's corona and explore the phenomena of CMEs, potentially helping to understand why the corona is hotter than the sun's surface.</li><li>The success of this mission in emulating a solar eclipse with artificial precision has the potential to change our general understanding of the event, as well as stimulate developments in space-based observation techniques.</li></ul>

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