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Image description: Clouds created by NASA’s Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX). ATREX is a Heliophysics sounding rocket mission that will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth. Learn more about the misson from NASA, and watch video of the launch on YouTube. Photo from NASA

Image description: Clouds created by NASA’s Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX). ATREX is a Heliophysics sounding rocket mission that will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.

Learn more about the misson from NASA, and watch video of the launch on YouTube.

Photo from NASA

March 28, 2012
Tagged: nasa, environment, science,
Source: nasa.gov

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