After multiple failed attempts, NASA’s Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket lit up the sky with blue-green and red artificial clouds from North Carolina to New York early Thursday morning. The agency is calling it “an early Independence Day fireworks display.”
The wait is over! The Terrier-Improved Malemute launched this morning, June 29, at 4:25 a.m. An early Independence Day fireworks display!! pic.twitter.com/Y5x6Oz2hu8
— NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) June 29, 2017
While you’re sipping your morning coffee, check out this timelapse of the vapor deployment this morning.https://t.co/ZgGapgLBci pic.twitter.com/Vj81rOZWEc
— NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) June 29, 2017
The vapor tracers will allow scientists on the ground to view the movement of the particles in the ionosphere, a part of Earth’s atmosphere that stretches to the edge of space, to learn more about the movement of the air currents at that altitude.
Source edition.cnn.com
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