Hmm- I wonder whats up with this??
Hmm- I wonder whats up with this??
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Gotta love DutchSinse for spreading the news so effectively for stuff like this.
Here's the link at Space.com
http://www.space.com/14939-nasa-5-ro...day-night.html
This story was updated at 3:57 p.m. EDT.
After a four-day delay, NASA is planning to fire off five rockets in just over five minutes late Sunday (March 18) for a mission that, if all goes well, will create glowing clouds to probe mysterious, fast-moving winds at the edge of space.
The five-rocket salvo, which is scheduled to launch Sunday night from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, forms the core of the agency's Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment, or ATREX. The unmanned rockets will release chemical tracers at about 60 miles (97 kilometers) up, allowing scientists to track high-altitude winds that can top 300 mph (483 kph).
These tracers will generate luminous milky-white clouds that should be visible to folks on the ground from parts of South Carolina up through southern New England, researchers have said.
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