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NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Jan 3, 2023 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn about its interior. The asteroid, 2010 XC15, is estimated to be about 500 feet across and is passing by Earth at two lunar distances, which is twice the distance between […]

Rocket flies high over Norway in UAF scientist’s atmosphere experiment

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Dec 2, 2021 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

A NASA sounding rocket soared high from a launchpad in Norway on Wednesday morning in a decades-old quest to understand the cause of a persistent dense patch of upper atmosphere on Earth’s sun-facing side. The Cusp Region Experiment-2, or C-REX-2, is headed by space physicist Mark Conde of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute […]