Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA officials are prepared to launch a mission that is designed to protect the Earth's technologies against the potentially damaging effects of solar storms.
NASA and Space X officials have OK'd a Wednesday morning launch of the space agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe after weather scrubbed Tuesday's launch.
The rocket's payload includes NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, which will monitor ultraviolet light from the Earth's geocorona.
The geocorona is a cloud of hydrogen atoms that extends the Earth's atmosphere to the moon and beyond, according to the European Space Agency.
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