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Citizens of Earth, Do Not Panic If Brilliant, Glowing Clouds Fill the Sky Tonight

Dennis Mersereau · 10/07/15 12:20AM

You know your crazy relative who’s always suspicious of black SUVs? Quick—block him on Facebook. NASA is scheduled to launch a suborbital rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, on Wednesday night, and as one of its experiments, it will eject colorful clouds of vapor more than a hundred miles above the ground in order to study ions and neutral particles in the upper atmosphere.