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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Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Heliophysics Division, Heliophysics Research Program, Ionosphere, Science Mission Directorate, Sounding Rockets, Sounding Rockets Program, Space Weather, The Sun, Wallops Flight Facility
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September 2, 2026
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