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RSS FeedsNASA balloon recovered a year after flight over Antarctica
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)

 
 

23 february 2017 17:13:16

 
NASA balloon recovered a year after flight over Antarctica
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)
 


For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the pre-planned command to cut the balloon - and the telescope parachuted to the ground in the Queen Maud region of Antarctica.


 
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