First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth

First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth

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Fairbanks AK (SPX) Dec 23, 2024

Newly published results from a 2021 experiment led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky. The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport experiment - KiNET-X - lifted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on May 16, 2021, in the final minutes of the fin

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