A NASA-funded team launched a rocket straight into an Alaskan aurora on March 3, for science.
The mission, known as the Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics-Electrons Correlative Experiment, was designed to study how auroras form. The team camped out at Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Alaska, until aurora conditions were right for take-off.
This particular rocket is called a sound rocket, and it stayed airborne for about 10 minutes while instruments attached to its body sampled plasma from the aurora. Once the rocket’s engine flamed out, its body parachuted back to Earth with the samples in tow. Read more…
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