Photo courtesy Jeff Pederson
UAF Geophysical Institute
Arctic Science Journeys
With a dazzling display dancing across the sky over Alaska, a NASA sounding rocket blasted from Poker Flat Research Range this week to penetrate the aurora in an investigation of its mysterious energy waves.
In the last launch of Poker Flat’s season, a NASA Black Brant XII rocket lifted off at 11:39 p.m. on Feb. 27 with a payload of sensitive instruments in an experiment named CHARM, led by Jim LaBelle, a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.