Posted on 04/03/2024 10:23:21 AM PDT by bitt
NASA is ready to launch three sounding rockets during the rare celestial event of a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
The mission aims to shed light on how the Earth’s upper atmosphere reacts to the sudden and temporary absence of sunlight.
The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission will see its sounding rockets ascend from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, targeting the ionosphere, a layer of Earth’s atmosphere that becomes notably disturbed when the Moon’s shadow eclipses the Sun.
This trio of rockets, which previously saw action during the annular solar eclipse in October 2023 at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, has been refurbished with advanced instrumentation for their upcoming mission.
The project is spearheaded by Aroh Barjatya, Professor of Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida, and director of the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab.
The scheduled launch times for the sounding rockets are meticulously planned: one will ascend 45 minutes before the eclipse reaches its peak, another during the eclipse, and the final rocket will be launched 45 minutes after the peak.
This staggered launch sequence is crucial for capturing the dynamic changes in the ionosphere caused by the eclipse, changes that could potentially disrupt communication systems on Earth.
“It’s an electrified region that reflects and refracts radio signals, and also impacts satellite communications as the signals pass through,” said Barjatya. “Understanding the ionosphere and developing models to help us predict disturbances is crucial to making sure our increasingly communication-dependent world operates smoothly.”
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The mission aims to shed light on how the Earth’s upper atmosphere reacts to the sudden and temporary absence of sunlight.
Put a shield in space to block the Sun and it gets very cold and everything DIES ,D’oh
2. when the Moon’s shadow eclipses the Sun. (scratching head)
Don’t google “sounding” with out safe search on
I guess we're on the side of the Serpent now. Not a surprise.
The is still a part of NASA that does actual science stuff?
bttt
Let’s hope they put their DIE hires in the naming and logo departments and leave the rocket science to the qualified.
Over/under on number of rockets that blow up on liftoff is 2.
Are these the emps and they’re going to blame the outage on the eclipse?
“symbolizing the eternal struggle between light and darkness”
Seems poetic, to me, and relates nicely to what happens during an eclipse...
NASA Mission name is APEP- serpent deity-ancient Egyptian spirit of evil, darkness and destruction
Somehow, that doesn’t look ancient Egyptian to me...
Is this better?
“three sounding rockets”.
guess we’ll find out what three sounds like.
Looks like Bast.
But we can not have the goddess of hearth and home taking down the big bad.
Of course in the story it was the entire group that took him down. Including Set. Because while he did not like his family that much there are worse things in the world then your siblings. Like Chaos.
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