NASA launched a research rocket from the Poker Flats Research Range to study an anomaly in the aurora.
According to Alexa Halford, Principal Investigator with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the project was formed with the goal of studying a specific aspect of the aurora known as “pulsating.”
Halford continued, “The colors are associated with two different things. The colors are effectively telling you what heights a lot of the auroras are at, as well as what energy of electrons is being lost from the magnetosphere.” “Once we all get situated and get the data back,” Halford elaborated, “we’re really excited to start diving into it and actually seeing what we did get out of it. But what we think we got out of it was all these different particles coming down... capturing those... then with images, being able to tell if those particles are the ones that caused the aurora and how the structures we see in those particle distributions match the structures we see.
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