In cold polar skies, NASA rocket will watch Aurora turn up the heat - EurekAlert

A new NASA mission hopes to fly through an active aurora to study this energy exchange process up close. The launch window for Ion-Neutral Coupling during Active Aurora, or INCAA mission, opens at the Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Alaska, on March …

image: A conceptual animation showing electrons traveling down Earth's magnetic field lines, colliding into particles in in Earth's atmosphere to trigger the aurora.view more  Credit: Credits: NASA'… [+4571 chars]

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