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University of Alaska Fairbanks

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A time-lapse photograph captures the Super Soaker launches on Jan. 25-26, 2018. Three rockets launched with the mission, two using vapor tracers to track wind movement and one releasing a water canister to seed a polar mesospheric cloud. The green laser beam visible at the top left is the LIDAR beam used to measure the artificial cloud.

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Photo by Zayn Roohi courtesy of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and Poker Flat Research Range

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