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316 posted on 04/03/2024 9:37:10 AM PDT by Melian (✳✴️ Reminder: Memes are made to make you think or laugh. Verify for yourself before reposting. ✳️✴️)
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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 mission’s name, APEP, is a nod to the mythological serpent that was believed to be Ra’s eternal adversary, symbolizing the eternal struggle between light and darkness, according to NASA.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/nasa-launch-three-sounding-rockets-during-total-solar/


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