NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds
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A NASA sounding rocket has provided new multi-point measurements inside sporadic E layers, high-altitude metallic clouds formed from vaporized meteor dust that can disrupt radio signals. NASA describes the results as the first look of this kind inside these unpredictable, radio-disrupting layers.
High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then dissipate. Now, new results from a NASA sounding rocket — a suborbital research rocket […]
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