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Balloon Tracker |
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Balloon Launch:
for the Leonids
Use the applet above to view the telemetry from the August 13th balloon flight.
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Tracker Help 3D Location Help The "3D Display" shows the balloon's approximate location. You can click and drag to rotate the 3D display. Shift + Click zooms in and Ctrl + Click zooms out. Altitude Graph Help The " Altitude Graph" includes more data than what is plotted which is Altitude vs. Time. You can move your mouse around the data points to see Altitude, Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure and Rate of Climb. The Units are the same as the main display. |
Perseid Balloon Flight
The
JAVA applet at left shows the flight path of the most recent weather balloon launched from NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center's Science
Directorate.
The balloon with payload was launched around 2:14 AM CDT on August 13, 1999, but the balloon burst a little disappointingly early. The payload landed around 3:19 AM.
This was NASA's third mission to try to capture materials of cosmic origin before they are incinerated by entry into Earth's atmosphere or contact with the ground if they survive entry.
The first two flights were in November 1998 during the Leonids meteor shower and April 1999 during a meteor minimum to provide a proper comparison. On Perseids Live!, NASA will continue experimenting with several types of capture media to see how they fare at high altitude, and with new equipment for tracking and imagery.
For more information about this balloon flight, visit Science @ NASA.