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A bright rocket launch streaks across the night sky, leaving a glowing trail of light behind it. In the background, green auroras glow, illuminating the sky with their soft, ethereal light. The scene is set against a mountainous, snow-covered landscape, and the curvature of the ground gives the image a dynamic, wide-angle view. Stars are visible in the clear sky, adding to the sense of vastness and motion.

GREECE Sounding Rocket

A NASA-funded sounding rocket launches into an aurora in the early morning of March 3, 2014, over Venetie, Alaska. The GREECE mission studied how certain structures – classic curls like swirls of cream in coffee — form in the aurora.

Image Credit: NASA/Christopher Perry
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