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Clemson rocket launches test Alaskan auroras
03-16-2007 · EurekAlert!It may have been 40 degrees below zero at the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, but aurora and weather came together one recent winter night in a perfect match for Clemson University researchers and students who launched four rockets to study heat in the upper atmosphere.
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