Earth Sun ID: 13172

VISIONS-2 Imagery

Released on May 8, 2019

A collection of photos captured during NASA's VISIONS-2 sounding rocket campaign in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, a remote archipelago off the northern coast of Norway. The mission successfully launched on Dec. 7, 2018.

The EISCAT Svalbard radar is located in Longyearbyen, Svalbard and is used to study the polar cusp. During the VISIONS-2 mission, the EISCAT radar was used to detect the location of the cusp aurora.

Credit: NASA/Joy Ng

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Credits

Chris Pirner (ADNET): Photographer
Joy Ng (USRA): Photographer
Allison Stancil-Ervin (LJT & Associates): Photographer

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Keywords:
SVS >> Milky Way
SVS >> Photography
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Land Surface >> Landscape
GCMD >> Location >> Svalbard
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Sounding Rocket
SVS >> Cusp Aurora
SVS >> Polar Cusp
SVS >> VISIONS-2

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0