UI researchers aid rocket launch in Norway

UI researchers aid rocket launch in Norway

After a successful rocket launch to study the northern lights in Norway, University of Iowa researchers are awaiting findings from devices they built and attached to the rocket, which measure magnetic fields and electron energy.  The rocket took off from the Andøya Space Center on March 11 to study how bursts of energy from the northern lights create turbulence in Earth’s upper atmosphere.  According to Alaska Air Forwarding, a freight company t…