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

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

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 […]

NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Will Take 1,500 Images of Sun in 5 Minutes

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NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Will Take 1,500 Images of Sun in 5 Minutes

Today, scientists will launch a sounding rocket 200 miles up into the atmosphere, where in just five minutes, it will take 1,500 images of the sun. The NASA-funded RAISE mission is designed to scrutinize split-second changes occurring near the sun’s active regions — areas of intense, complex magnetic activity that can give rise to solar […]