NASA Launches Rocket to Study Auroras
NASA Launches Rocket to Study Auroras

The rocket following a 5:14 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, carried an Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) instrumented payload examining the structure of an aurora.

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These aurora images were taken in 2013 from the ground looking up with a network of all-sky cameras spread across Canada, studying auroras in collaboration with THEMIS.