{"id":219305,"date":"2014-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/sounding-rocket-launches-into-aurora-over-venetie-alaska"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:00:00","slug":"sounding-rocket-launches-into-aurora-over-venetie-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219305","title":{"rendered":"Sounding Rocket Launches Into Aurora Over Venetie, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska. The Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics \u2013 Electron Correlative Experiment (GREECE) sounding rocket mission, which launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Alaska, will study classic curls in the aurora in the night sky.<br \/>\nThe GREECE mission seeks to understand what combination of events sets up these auroral curls as they&#8217;re called, in the charged, heated gas \u2013 or plasma \u2013 where aurorae form. This is a piece of information, which in turn, helps paint a picture of the sun-Earth connection and how energy and particles from the sun interact with Earth&#8217;s own magnetic system, the magnetosphere.<br \/>\n> Read more<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/Christopher Perry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska. The Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics \u2013 Electron Correlative Experiment (GREECE) sounding rocket mission, which launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Alaska, will study classic curls in the aurora in the night sky.<br \/>\nThe GREECE mission seeks to understand what combination of events sets up these auroral curls as they&#8217;re called, in the charged, heated gas \u2013 or plasma \u2013 where aurorae form. This is a piece of information, which in turn, helps paint a picture of the sun-Earth connection and how energy and particles from the sun interact with Earth&#8217;s own magnetic system, the magnetosphere.<br \/>\n&gt; Read more<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/Christopher Perry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}