Charged Aerosol Release Experiment
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The Charged Aerosol Release Experiment also known as CARE, is a project run by NASA which will use a rocket to release dust in the upper atmosphere to form a dusty plasma in space.
The dust cloud is generated using the
According to NASA, Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER [4]) instrument will track the CARE dust cloud for days or even months. The SHIMMER instrument has previously viewed natural noctilucent clouds for the past two years. The CARE will be the first space viewing of an artificial noctilucent cloud.[5]
The rocket was set to launch between 7:30 and 7:57 EDT on Tuesday September 14, 2009, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
On September 16, 2015, a Black Brant XI sounding rocket was launched from Andoya, Norway and carried 37 rocket motors and a multi-instrument daughter payload into the ionosphere to study the generation of plasma wave electric fields and ionospheric density disturbances by the high-speed injection of dust particles. A primary sensor for the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE II) was the two SuperDARN CUTLASS radars that view the ocean north of Norway.
See also
- Noctilucent cloud
- polar mesospheric clouds
References
- Bibcode:2008cosp...37..261B.
- ^ Moskowitz, Clara (September 16, 2009). "NASA rocket aims to create artificial clouds". NBC News. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ^ Bernhart, Paul (May 19, 2009). "Update on CARE" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-14.
- ^ "SHIMMER". ESA.
- ^ "Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket". NASA. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
External links
- Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine, NASA
- An Update on theCharged Aerosol Release ExperimentCARE