NASAのインスタグラム(nasagoddard) - 4月10日 03時35分

The AZURE rockets had a colorful April 5 flight! 🚀🎨
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1️⃣ During their flight over Norway, these two sounding rockets deployed gas tracers — made of substances similar to those in fireworks — to create colorful clouds that allow researchers to track the flow of neutral and charged particles with the auroral wind. This helps scientists better understand the exchange of energy within an aurora.

2️⃣ One of the two Black Brant XI rockets leaves the launch pad at the Andøya Space Center in Norway.

3️⃣ An aurora is seen dancing across the night sky prior to the launch of AZURE rockets at the Andøya Space Center in Norway.

AZURE is one of nine missions launching as part of the Grand Challenge Initiative — Cusp, a series of international sounding rocket missions to study Earth’s geomagnetic cusp between 2018 and 2020. The cusp is one of the few places on Earth where particles from the solar wind have easy access to our atmosphere.

Image credits: NASA/Lee Wingfield #nasa #nasagoddard #space #science #rockets #aurora

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