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Rocketing Into the Northern Lights

Researchers probed the auroral wind by shooting instruments into them in February 2013.


Photograph copyright Sebastian Saarloos. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory, and Claire De Saravia, NASA-GSFC, with reporting from Amy Hartley, University of Alaska Geophysical Institute.

Published February 9, 2013
Data acquired February 6, 2013

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