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TOPIC: Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling

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Date: Dec 15 10:51 2010

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UNH-led Experiment Hurtled into Aurora Above Norway by NASA Rocket A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Centre launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andøya Rocket Range into aurora about 200 miles above Earth early Sunday morning (Dec. 12, 2010), just before the two-week launch window slammed shut. For the 10-minute flight, a 65-foot-long Black Brant XII rocket arced through a funnel-shaped region of Earth's magnetic field lines before landing some 900 miles downrange in the Norwegian Sea. The science data were transmitted to a ground station during the short flight. Read more __________________

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