Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:50am on 08 Apr 2024,Monday Science
Aroh Barjatya, director of SAIL at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, leads the APEP mission during the total solar eclipse on Apr. 8. The eclipse will pass over North America, causing temporary darkening. Barjatya explains that the eclipse creates atmospheric waves affecting radio communication. NASA launches three Black Brant IX sounding rockets from Wallops Flight Facility to study the ionosphere's response to the Sun's disappearance. This mission aims to understand how the eclipse impacts Earth's upper atmosphere.
