{"id":33526,"date":"2017-07-01T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33526"},"modified":"2017-07-01T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T07:48:08","slug":"nasa-rocket-creates-colourful-artificial-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/nasa-rocket-creates-colourful-artificial-clouds.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA rocket creates colourful artificial clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">NASA rocket creates colourful artificial clouds<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">NASA has successfully launched a sounding rocket that created colourful artificial clouds visible in the US skies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched yesterday, from the US space agency&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, after being delayed multiple times over the last 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">During the 8-minute flight, 10 canisters about the size of a soft drink can were ejected in space, 9 to 19 kilometres away from the 300-kg main payload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The canisters deployed blue-green and red vapour that formed artificial clouds visible from New York to North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">During an ionosphere or aurora science mission, these clouds, or vapour tracers, allow scientists on the ground to visually track particle motions in space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The development of the multi-canister ejection system will allow scientists to gather information over a much larger area than previously possible when deploying the tracers just from the main payload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/technology\/nasa-rocket-creates-colourful-artificial-clouds\/59395744<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/nasa-rocket-creates-colourful-artificial-clouds.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA rocket creates colourful artificial clouds NASA has successfully launched a sounding rocket that created colourful artificial clouds visible in the US skies. 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