Five Suborbital Rockets Launched In Jet Stream Study | Video

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

The rockets were launched 80 seconds apart and release chemical tracers that created milky, white clouds more than 60 miles above Earth. NASA's Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) mission goal is to understand ultra-fast jet stream winds.

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