NASA launches sounding rockets during solar eclipse

Monday's solar eclipse presented a rare opportunity for NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.

A team at Virginia's Wallops Island sent three sounding rockets into the ionosphere, the atmospheric layer nearly 100 miles above our heads that guides radio and satellite communications across the planet.

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