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The view from the WB-57 during one of the SABRE flights. Credit: NASA

NOAA scientists link exotic metal particles in the upper atmosphere to rockets, satellites

NOAA scientists investigating the stratosphere have found that in addition to meteoric ‘space dust,’ the atmosphere more than seven miles above the surface is peppered with particles containing a variety of metals from satellites and spent rocket boosters vaporized by the intense heat of re-entry.

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