Two Rockets Set to Launch from Poker Flat Research Range
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 15:32
in Astronomy & Space
NASA rockets to be launched as early as today (Jan. 26) from Alaska will allow researchers from the University of Colorado to capture ultraviolet images of the Whirlpool Galaxy -- 31 million light years from Earth. And researchers from Virginia Tech will use rocket-mounted instruments to measure nitric oxide, a molecule that destroys ozone, from about 30 to 100 miles above the ground.