NASA studies cosmic phenomena of all sorts, but here it’s tackling something very close to home. It recently launched two rockets as part of the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment, or AZURE, meant to study the Earth’s aurora. Each rocket measures the density of the atmosphere and releases gas tracers—those are the jellyfish-things you see …
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