Auroral Analysis: Visualizing Ionospheric Data Of The LAMP Rocket Mission

Authors

Shreya Gandhi, Dartmouth CollegeFollow

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Student Class

2026

Student Affiliation

WISP Intern

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3380-8634

First Advisor

Kristina Lynch

First Advisor Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Description

The Lynch Rocket Lab at Dartmouth aims to identify and study characteristics of plasma in the auroral ionosphere. Data about the ionosphere is gathered by instrumentation aboard sounding rocket missions funded by NASA. One such mission, the LAMP (Loss Through Auroral Microburst Pulsations) sounding rocket, was flown over Poker Flat, Alaska in March 2022. The rocket’s goal was to investigate the phenomenon of pulsating aurora, a unique phenomenon where aurora appear like strobe lights. My project centered around the analysis and visualization of data gathered by instrumentation aboard LAMP during its flight.

Publication Date

Spring 5-2023

Disciplines

Physics | Plasma and Beam Physics

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Gandhi, Shreya, "Auroral Analysis: Visualizing Ionospheric Data Of The LAMP Rocket Mission" (2023). Wetterhahn Science Symposium Posters 2023. 24.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/wetterhahn_2023/24