A Night at Poker Flat
On January 26, 4 NASA suborbital sounding rockets took off from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. The image above is a time lapse composite picture that follows all 4 launches. In the picture, small, multi-stage rockets take off through the aurora-filled skies with Lidar (beams of pulsed green lasers) in the scenery. Operating successfully, the 4 rocks were 2 Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere Turbulence Experiments (M-TeX) and 2 Mesospheric Inversion-layer Stratified Turbulence (MIST) experiments, that created vapor trails at high altitudes to be tracked by ground-based observations.
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