Scientists from NASA and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have teamed up and launched a study that captures the aurora from every angle
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - They truly are an awe and wonder in the night sky — the shiny, brilliant and electric colors of the aurora, or in this part of the world, the northern lights.
This study comes with a light show of its own, from a rocket. And while that’s cool, when you add a field of many, many cameras of all kinds along the ground that look up and capture every moment, that’s an equation for space science gold. NASA is using sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range, about 30 miles north of Fairbanks. To better understand this transfer of additional energy, NASA partnered with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and created the L.A.M.P. experiment, which stands for “Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations.
The scientists believe that good data was retrieved from the first launch and scientists are just as encouraged, though cautiously, with this next one.
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