NASA's recent rocket launches, part of the AWESOME project, aimed to understand how auroral substorms affect the Earth's atmosphere. Conducted over Alaska, the team launched three rockets, creating stunning light displays including blue and purple colours, and a bright double-ring from a faulty payload. Despite the glitch, the mission gathered valuable data to enhance knowledge about auroras and assist in improving space weather forecasting, with significant implications for satellite operations, such as GPS.
That ring was spectacular. It was extremely bright and absolutely unmissable. Anyone who was outside at the time and looked up would have been treated to a visually stunning display in the sky.
These launches are a great accomplishment in the effort to continue to research the impact of auroras and potentially improve space weather forecasting.
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