A Sounding Rocket Launches (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A Sounding Rocket Launches

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A sounding rocket carrying an experiment to help calibrate the EVE instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory launched on May 6, 2010. These calibrations occur approximately once a year and another occurs on Oct. 21, 2013.

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