NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, or THEMIS, mission aims to learn more about auroras and magnetic storms in space, which can disrupt communications, affect satellites and even make astronauts sick.
NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser traveled to Petersburg, Alaska in March and spoke to students and teachers at Petersburg High School, which houses one of the THEMIS magnetometers for NASA.
Vassilis Angelopoulos, principal investigator of THEMIS and a research physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, took your questions about auroras and school participation in the mission.
