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[[http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/02/rocket-reaches-into-the-northern-lights-to-illuminate-aurora-activity/ | Dartmouth release]] [[http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/02/21/nr-myers-nasa-rocket-northern-lights.cnn | CNN]] [[http://newsminer.com/bookmark/17600130-NASA-launches-rocket-to-collect-data-on-aurora | fairbanks news-miner]] [[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_AURORA_ROCKET_GPS_NHOL-?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&__utma=1.1893381147.1329834891.1329834891.1329834891.1&__utmb=1.14.9.1329835795761&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1329834891.1.1.utmcsr(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=39107363 | APS/NPR]] Added lines 8-9:
[[http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/21/10469940-rocket-flies-into-the-northern-lights | msnbc]] Added lines 1-4:
'''a truly beautiful timelapse movie from jason ahrns at the Ft Yukon site, from the night of the launch:''' [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/musubk/6912186515/ | jason timelapse]] Added lines 2-3:
quick look so far on instrumentation looks good...groundbased camera data base is amazing. Added lines 1-12:
'''a variety of press releases:''' [[http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/02/rocket-reaches-into-the-northern-lights-to-illuminate-aurora-activity/ | Dartmouth release]] [[http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/02/21/nr-myers-nasa-rocket-northern-lights.cnn | CNN]] [[http://newsminer.com/bookmark/17600130-NASA-launches-rocket-to-collect-data-on-aurora | fairbanks news-miner]] [[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_AURORA_ROCKET_GPS_NHOL-?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&__utma=1.1893381147.1329834891.1329834891.1329834891.1&__utmb=1.14.9.1329835795761&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1329834891.1.1.utmcsr(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=39107363 | APS/NPR]] Added lines 10-13:
[[Attach:FYU_20120219_Mapped_0535_to_0555.mov|a mapped movie of the aurora over the rocket trajectory by Don Hampton of UAF/GI]] Changed line 3 from:
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%width=350px%Attach:bimg_8300.jpg taken by colleague Craig Heinselman of SRI. You can see boh stages of the motor burn, including the fall back down to the ground of the first stage after it is ejected before the second stage ignites. [[Attach:bimg_8300.jpg| full size]] Changed line 3 from:
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'''19 February 2012''' Attach:bimg_8300.jpg taken by colleague Craig Heinselman of SRI. You can see boh stages of the motor burn, including the fall back down to the ground of the first stage after it is ejected before the second stage ignites. A few other images of the launch from various places: [[http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/15400226/1/Poker_MICA_Rocket_Launch_Night_18-Feb-2012?h=85bfbf | from Mark Conde of UAF/GI]] [[http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Casey-Thompson--Rocket-Launch-NG-1600x1067_1329652865.jpg | pointed out by Tom Malaby of our engineering team]] Added lines 1-8:
'''18 February 2012''' LAUNCHED!!!... much happiness. more tomorrow -k Added lines 1-11:
'''17 February 2012''' Another too-quiet night. We did bring the count down to 2 minutes for the last hour, but all the activity was up north at Kaktovik. The whole science team is now very practiced, we feel confident that we can catch any little aurora that dances its way across Ft Yukon... Try again tomorrow... Added lines 1-8:
'''16 February 2012''' Nope, not tonight. This was the permutation involving clear skies, a happy rocket, good winds, and no aurora to speak of.... A correction to my note from last night....rockets are like iceboats in being steered in a backwards way. The fins are at the back, so a wind pushing the fins toward, say, the east, makes the rocket point west. So if the wind is blowing toward the east, you have to point the launcher farther east. Weird. (Thanks Meghan for pointing that out.) Changed line 15 from:
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A quiet night, to make up for all the action last night. The auroral activity was very quiet, and also hidden behind clouds at all three of our optical sites. I went to visit the balloon facility; the "balloon woman", Darla, who launched 75 bazillion balloons during our last rocket campaign, is back at work filling and launching balloons. The balloons are used to monitor the wind conditions; each one carries a little sounder and provides an altitude trace of the winds. These are used to correct the launcher settings; ie if the winds are strongly pushing the rocket to the west, we point the rocket on the launcher a little east to compensate. For the GreenCubers, here are some detailed pictures of Darla's valve system for easily and with just one person, filling many balloons each night. Hoping for more activity and clearer skies tomorrow night. Added lines 1-4:
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'''14 February 2012''' No launch tonight, but not for lack of trying. We were on our toes (and sitting at a 2-minute hold) for almost all of our 6 hour window which was extended to a 6.5 hour window. For those of you who have followed these windows before, the solar wind magnetic field was southward (ie a good energy transfer to the Earth's enviroment) for over 16 hours straight. I've never seen that before. So we learned a lot, but we're still here. Bodes well for activity levels this winter though. Changed lines 3-4 from:
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'''13 February 2012''' %width=180px%Attach:onrail.jpg We are on the rail and the rail is vertical! Always a nice hurdle to pass. The photo shows the boxed payload on the launch rail. The payload is encased in a styrofoam box (which is built up around it) so that warm air can be pumped up through it while it is exposed on the rail. (The payload launches right through the styrofoam, the fins break it apart as the payload moves up the rail.) So the latticework looking thing to the right of the white rectangle is the launch rail; it can fold down horizontally to the left and then there is a housing which can slide over to cover it during buildup. The white rectangle is the boxed payload. This one is a two-stage motor, and the rail can hold a 4-stage motor, that's why the rocket is short compared to the rail. We are keeping the altitude and range of this mission shorter than normal so that we can fly within the range of the scientific radar facility here at Poker, PFISR.[[http://http://www.amisr.com/ | PFISR link]] Changed line 3 from:
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Greetings from the Poker Flat Research Range, 30 Mile Steese Highway...30 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska. The rocket is on the rail, the nose is on the rocket, the instruments are under the nose...now we need the aurora. The pictures show the payload getting its nose put on in the payload assembly building; the data displays in the telemetry building; and the lovely colors of an arctic sunset as seen from the middle of the rocket range. I flew north from Seattle Friday afternoon; the flight up the coast of Alaska is spectacularly beautiful. Every view from each window is an abstract high-detail photograph by Ansel Adams or Eliot Porter. When the first part of the team came up here two weeks ago, it was 50 degrees below zero. Fortunately that weather has abated; it is very mild and it would better if it were colder, as it is somewhat cloudy. Tonight and tomorrow night the science team is assembled at the range hoping for some aurora to practice with; we have our main group here at Poker; a second group running cameras at Fort Yukon to the north; and yet another person at a tiny town called Venetie setting up cameras directly under the planned apogee of the rocket. But right now the Sun is very quiet; we are hoping that it knows we need it to be active later this week so is saving its energies for then. Changed lines 1-4 from:
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'''11 February 2012''' %width=100px%Attach:noeon10feb.jpg %width=100px%Attach:sunset.jpg %width=100px%Attach:tmdisplay.jpg Greetings from the Poker Flat Research Range, 30 Mile Steese Highway...30 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska. The rocket is on the rail, the nose is on the rocket, the instruments are under the nose...now we need the aurora. The pictures show the payload getting its nose put on in the payload assembly building; the data displays in the telemetry building; and the lovely colors of an arctic sunset as seen from the middle of the rocket range. I flew north from Seattle Friday afternoon; the flight up the coast of Alaska is spectacularly beautiful. Every view from each window is an abstract high-detail photograph by Ansel Adams or Eliot Porter. When the first part of the team came up here two weeks ago, it was 50 degrees below zero. Fortunately that weather has abated; it is very mild and it would better if it were colder, as it is somewhat cloudy. Tonight and tomorrow night the science team is assembled at the range hoping for some aurora to practice with; we have our main group here at Poker; a second group running cameras at Fort Yukon to the north; and yet another person at a tiny town called Venetie setting up cameras directly under the planned apogee of the rocket. But right now the Sun is very quiet; we are hoping that it knows we need it to be active later this week so is saving its energies for then. -K Changed line 4 from:
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This will be the page for updates and pictures. We can put each page in a [[Main/specificdate]] subpage or we can leave it here on top. Perhaps leave most recent on top. We can append a Attach:pips.jpg|figure or [[Attach:pips.jpg|figure]]in a subpage. Changed lines 1-12 from:
A local copy of PmWiki's documentation has been installed along with the software, and is available via the [[PmWiki/documentation index]]. To continue setting up PmWiki, see [[PmWiki/initial setup tasks]]. The [[PmWiki/basic editing]] page describes how to create pages in PmWiki More information about PmWiki is available from http://www to:
Hi Kristina, This is the wiki for publicly viewable updates on the MICA project. No password needed for viewing. I used the picture from your homepage instead of the MICA logo in the upper left. That should make it more obvious which page you are on when moving back and forth between the Science Team's wiki and this one. It is easily changed (just replace public_html/pmwiki-mica/pub/updates.jpg) and I am happy to do that if/when you have a picture you like better for here. |