Research ArticleSPACE SCIENCES
New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere
- Elizabeth A. MacDonald1,2,*,
- Eric Donovan3,
- Yukitoshi Nishimura4,5,
- Nathan A. Case6,
- D. Megan Gillies3,
- Bea Gallardo-Lacourt3,5,
- William E. Archer3,†,
- Emma L. Spanswick3,
- Notanee Bourassa7,
- Martin Connors3,8,9,
- Matthew Heavner2,10,
- Brian Jackel3,
- Burcu Kosar1,2,
- David J. Knudsen3,
- Chris Ratzlaff7 and
- Ian Schofield8
- 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
- 2New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.
- 3University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 4Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
- 5University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
- 6Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
- 7Alberta Aurora Chasers, Alberta, Canada.
- 8Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada.
- 9Department of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada.
- 10Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: e.a.macdonald{at}nasa.gov
↵† Present address: Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.
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Science Advances 14 Mar 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 3, eaaq0030
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0030
