When To Watch NASA Fire Three Rockets At The Solar Eclipse On Monday
Atmospheric Experiment
However, this will not be an examination of what happens during a total solar eclipse. NASA will not be firing rockets into the moon’s darkest umbral shadow, only its lighter outer penumbra.
That’s because NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia—from where the “Atmospheric Perturbations Around The Eclipse Path” project’s rockets will blast-off off—is outside the path of totality, that 115 miles-wide path through parts of Mexico, 15 U.S. states and Canada.
At the peak of the event, Wallops Island will see 81% of the sun blocked by the moon.
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