The recent findings from NOAA’s SABRE mission have unveiled a startling discovery: our stratosphere is not just a recipient of meteoric “space dust” but also a depository for a variety of metals originating from human-made satellites and spent rocket boosters. These metals or pollutants find their way into the stratosphere through the intense heat of re-entry, vaporizing and mingling with other particles high above the Earth’s surface. Unveiling Sky-High Secrets The SABRE mission, short for Stratospheric Aerosol processes, Budget, and Radiative Effects, is NOAA’s most comprehensive effort to study aerosol particles in the stratosphere, a crucial atmospheric layer that not … Continue reading NOAA’s SABRE Mission Unmasks Stratospheric Layer’s Secret: Pollutants from Space Debris!