Wow! NASA to do a first, shoot rockets at Northern Lights today, reveal TRUTH behind solar storms

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Today, On March 23, NASA is planning to do something never heard of before. The American space agency will be shooting two rockets into the fascinating northern lights, also known as aurora borealis. This may sound bizarre to you, but there is a good scientific reason behind NASA shooting rockets into the famously patterned lights. And the reason is that NASA wants to better understand these lights which are generated by massive bursts of energy released by solar storms. This radiation, which also contain electromagnetic radiation, hits Earth’s atmosphere and cause aurora borealis. Scientists want to understand exactly how these lights containing charged particles interact with our gaseous atmosphere.

A lot is known about the northern lights. We know that these are dancing waves of lights seen near the northern hemisphere and appear in almost a curtain like shape. Generally, they appear in neon green luminescence, but their appearance can vary from bright orange to a yellowish tinge. Famous scientist Galileo Galilei was the first to coin the term aurora borealis for this phenomenon in 1619. We also know that these northern lights are seen in this particular geography of 10-20 degrees from the poles. The lights in the northern hemisphere are called northern lights or aurora borealis and the ones in the southern hemisphere are called aurora australis.

While much is known about them, there are still things scientists do not quite understand about the northern lights. In particular, they do not understand how they interact with our atmosphere. Our atmosphere is divided into multiple layers. The bottom few layers are called a neutral gas atmosphere as it contains oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen etc in their breathable neutral