NASA to do a first, shoot rockets at Northern Lights

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On March 23, NASA is planning to do something never heard of before.

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The American space agency will be shooting two rockets into the fascinating northern lights, also known as aurora borealis.

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This may sound bizarre to you, but there is a good scientific reason behind NASA shooting rockets into the famously patterned lights

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And the reason is that NASA wants to better understand these lights which are generated by massive bursts of energy released by solar storms.

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This radiation, which also contain electromagnetic radiation, hits Earth’s atmosphere and cause aurora borealis.

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Scientists want to understand exactly how these lights containing charged particles interact with our gaseous atmosphere.

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