Friday 9 October 2015

NASA's vapor tracers to turn the night sky into a rainbow

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NASA's vapor tracers to turn the night sky into a rainbow
Wallops Island, Va. (UPI) Oct 7, 2015 - In an effort to better understand "the naturally occurring flows of ionized and neutral particles" in the upper atmosphere, NASA is releasing a series of colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. The tracers will be released by a sounding rocket, set to launch between 7 and 9 p.m. EST from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Approximately six minutes after launch, four sub- ... more


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