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Rocket Flown Through Northern Lights To Help Unlock Space Weather Mysteries

Posted by timothy on from the david-bowie-enjoyed-the-trip dept.

Zothecula writes The northern lights are more than one of nature's most awe inspiring sights, they are an electromagnetic phenomena that can adversely affect power grids and communications and navigation systems. Researchers from the University of Oslo have flown a rocket through the phenomena to take a closer look with the aim of gathering data that will help in predicting space weather.

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  1. News? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People have been launching sounding rockets into the aurora borealis for something like 60 years - in the many hundreds, if not thousands. The facilities in AK and Canada are far and away the most active sounding rocket sites in the world because of it.

        How is this news?