Indo-US researcher led NASA’s sounding rockets mission during solar eclipse
Three sounding rockets were launched by NASA to study how Earth's upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of planet
Indo-US researcher led NASA’s sounding rockets mission during solar eclipse
Nasa, USA: NASA’s mission that launched sounding rockets during the recent total solar eclipse was led by Aroh Barjatya, an India-born researcher who studied in cities across the country before moving to the United States, his family said.
The US space agency on April 8 launched three sounding rockets during the solar eclipse — visible in North America — to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet.
“The mission was led by Aroh Barjatya, a professor of engineering physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, where he directs the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab,” NASA said in a statement. The ‘Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP)’ sounding rockets were launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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