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Pretty Space Pics: A Rocket Arcs Across the Northern Lights
A Two-Stage Rocket Arcs Through the Aurora Borealis Over Alaska Terry E. Zaperach, NASA Here, a two-stage suborbital rocket rips across the auroras over Alaska. The small rocket was launched by scientists Saturday as part of a NASA-backed study into how auroras can affect signals coming to and from satellites and spacecraft. Scientists hope to better understand the way space weather impacts our electrical systems on Earth and in orbit in order to possibly mitigate those effects as the sun builds toward its solar maximum in 2013. The team used...
Published By: Popular Science - Tuesday, 21 February
