Cosmic ray telescope launches from Antarctica
The eye of the tiger is flying high above Antarctica once again.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2018
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
It may not be your actual Superman, but participants to ESA's ɸ-week are certainly embracing some 'superhero' ideas for the future of Earth observation, including high-flying platforms – something between a satellite and ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2018
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Balloon measurements reveal dust particle properties in free troposphere over desert
The Taklamakan Desert, one of the major sources of Asian dust, is situated in the Tarim Basin, with the Tianshan Mountains in the north, Pamir Plateau in the west, Kunlun Mountains in the south, and Dunhuang in the east. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2018
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Video: Popping balloons with style
Orange peels contain limonene, and this chemical is the key to a party trick in which you can pop a balloon with a twist.
Materials Science
Aug 9, 2018
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Balloon-borne telescope looks for cosmic gamma rays
Cosmic gamma rays can provide us with important insights into high-energy phenomena in our universe. The GRAINE (Gamma-Ray Astro-Imager with Nuclear Emulsion) collaboration aims to record high-energy cosmic gamma rays at ...
Astronomy
Aug 8, 2018
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A clever way to recover weather balloon radiosondes
The meteorological sensors carried into the upper atmosphere by weather balloons are often lost as they return to earth. As part of their Bachelor's project, five EPFL students worked on a system to recover this equipment.
Engineering
Jul 24, 2018
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Red sky in sight shows charging at height
The Saharan dust cloud that cast a red glow over the UK last autumn helped scientists to take a step forward in understanding how to prepare for future volcanic eruptions.
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2018
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Musk says that SpaceX will use a giant party balloon to bring an upper stage back
When Elon Musk of SpaceX tweets something interesting, it generates a wave of excitement. So when he tweeted recently that SpaceX might be working on a way to retrieve upper stages of their rockets, it set off a chain of ...
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2018
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Weather satellite wanders through time, space, causing stray warming to contaminate data
In the late 1990s, the NOAA-14 weather satellite went wandering through time and space, apparently changing the record of Earth's climate as it went.
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2018
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New Sandia balloon-borne infrasound sensor array detects explosions
Sheets of plastic similar to that used for garbage bags, packing tape, some string, a little charcoal dust and a white shoebox-size box are more than odds and ends. These are the supplies Danny Bowman, a Sandia National Laboratories ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2018
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