Barrel Stories
NASA-Funded Scientific Ballooners Wrap Up Fourth and Final Campaign
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The scientists of the BARREL team sent their last balloon soaring toward the stratosphere over Sweden on Aug. 30, 2016, capping off four years of launches to study how electrons precipitate into Earth’s atmosphere. Throughout August 2016, the BARREL team…
Article8 years ago
NASA-Funded Balloon Mission Begins Fourth Campaign
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The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The BARREL team launched the first balloon of this campaign – the fourth for BARREL – on Aug.…
Article8 years ago
NASA’s BARREL Team Returns from Sweden
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After seven balloon launches in the bright Arctic sun, the BARREL team has returned home from a 4-week campaign in Kiruna, Sweden, north of the Arctic Circle. Each research balloon observed emissions high in our atmosphere that correlated to events…
Article9 years ago