CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar January 4, 2022 12:57:00
Have a visor that will block the sun from, you know, shining on mars? >> well, the devil's in the details. because what you're looking at is the angular size, that means that as you move something farther away, the angular size becomes smaller. so here there is a very specific location where this spacecraft has to be, between mars and the sun. so you have to do the calculation based on that location to determine how much deflection you're actually going to get. it is like an umbrella for a planet. >> like an umbrella for a -- that's one big umbrella. you're -- jim, as you call him, he says tha...