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At Home in the Sky |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Henry M. Cathey Jr. |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,489 Words, 15,892 Characters |
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Ballooning provided man his first reach above the surface of the planet in 1783 with a short flight by France's Montgolfier brothers. Since that first flight, professional and amateur scientists around the world have used balloons as platforms for scientific instruments. In the late 1800s atmospheric scientists used balloons for measuring atmospheric temperature and moisture and even captured air samples at various heights. Early in the twentieth century, physicists used balloons to carry the instruments that made breakthrough discoveries of cosmic and gamma rays. Later, scientists used balloons for mapping the atmosphere as a series of layers. Driven by scientists' desire to raise their instruments ever higher above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, balloon technology steadily improved throug...
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...is only a matter of time. NASA's superpressure pumpkin balloons are living up to the motto "Giving Science a Lift to the Outer Limits."n
Ultra-Long Duration Balloon (ULDB) Project
http://www.wff.asa.gov/uldb/index.html
National Scientific Balloon Facility
http://master.sbf.asa.gov/fred/index.html Raven Industries, Inc. makes the balloon itself http://www.ravenind.com/
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