Sounding Rocket Launch in Australia (2022) #NASA #ROCKETLOUNCH

The Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars, or SISTINE, mission launched aboard a NASA sounding rocket from the Arnhem Space Center in Northern Australia on July 6, 2022, at 9:47 a.m. EDT (11:17 p.m. ACST). The mission helped astronomers understand how starlight influences a planet’s atmosphere, possibly making or breaking its ability to support life as we know it.

More info: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Mara Johnson-Groh

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