FAIRBANKS, Alaska – This week, NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly known as the Northern Lights.
NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky. NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras to help ...
which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander would return the samples to NASA and the European Space Agency for study.
NASA wants to go to Mars again -- and this time, bring back rocks. With a plan that America's premier space agency describes as its "most ambitious, multi-mission campaign," it intends to send a ...