Sounding Rocket Launches Into Aurora Over Alaska

[Andie]

So Phil, you're the plasma physicist, if you see this what do you think ?

 

http://www.nasa.gov/content/sounding-rocket-launches-into-aurora-over-venetie-alaska/index.html#.UxeaE8u9KSP

 

 

The GREECE mission seeks to understand what combination of events sets up these auroral curls as they're called, in the charged, heated gas – or plasma – where aurorae form. This is a piece of information, which in turn, helps paint a picture of the sun-Earth connection and how energy and particles from the sun interact with Earth's own magnetic system, the magnetosphere.

 

NASA