Famous Eclipse Kit Rockets Northern Lights Ideas. A nasa mission called apep will launch three sounding rockets into the annular solar eclipse to measure changes in electric and magnetic fields, density,. Web researchers at the swedish institute of space physics launched a sounding rocket bror from the esrange space centre in the far north of sweden last week.

For its second trip to space, the aurora. 18) in an attempt to discover what makes auroras tick. Web led by clemson university astronomer stephen kaeppler, scientists hope to send two rockets loaded with sensing tools into the active aurora borealis.