NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds – NASA Science0

• Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Heliophysics Division, Heliophysics Research Program, Ionosphere, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Sounding Rockets, Sounding Rockets Program, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, Space Weather, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, The Sun, Wallops Flight Facility
• September 3, 2026

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