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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Snow tomorrow! (February 23, 2017)



With a high of 34F and a low of 24F.

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches to Study Auroras


A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:13 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The rocket carried an Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) instrumented payload examining the structure of an aurora. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sounding-rocket-launches-to-study-auroras