NASA rockets to create glowing white artificial clouds
Beginning today, August 29th, and running through September 9th, NASA plans to run a rocket mission in order to study “disturbances in the upper atmosphere that interfere with communication and technology systems.”1 The effect of the mission will be artificial, night-time white clouds, only visible for residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and for only around 30 minutes. The two suborbital rockets will be launched from Roi-Namur Island, an island in the north part of the Kwajalein Atoll and the ideal location because of its proximity to the magnetic equator where post-sunset ionosphere storms are more intense. 2...
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