Tuesday, March 24, 2015

APOD 3.3

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This image is a time lapse of four rocket launches, and is extremely drawn out to give the viewer a full view of the sky in a circular field of vision. These rockets were launched on January 26 at the Poker Flat Research Range. The skies above are incredibly clear and also filled with elegantly green auroras. The rockets carried devices designed to leave vapor trails for observers to record data about the atmosphere regarding the movement of the vapor trails. The green trails are also laser tracers that were captured in the time-lapse.

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