WALLOPS ISLAND—Three sounding rockets launched in succession from Wallops Island recently.
The rockets launched for the Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus (TOMEX+) mission, whose goal was to study a super-cold layer of the atmosphere about 56 miles above Earth where meteors burn up and create sodium atoms that are normally invisible, reported the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.
The first two rockets released vapor tracers and….
