"NASA's Moon Shadow Probe: Rockets to Investigate Upcoming Eclipse"

NASA will launch three sounding rockets from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility to study disturbances in the ionosphere during the upcoming solar eclipse, aiming to understand how the sudden disappearance of the Sun's light affects Earth's upper atmosphere and communication systems. The rockets will release instruments to measure perturbations in the ionosphere, providing data to improve models predicting potential disturbances to communication systems. This mission follows a previous launch during the 2023 eclipse, which revealed a reduction in charged particle density.