How Students Livestreamed the Solar Eclipse from Near Space to NASA’s Website
The United States experienced a total solar eclipse on 21st August 2017 for the first time since 1918, with the path of totality across the entire continental United States. About 20 million people (a conservative estimate) watched from the path, and according to NASA, 40 million people watched the live eclipse broadcast on its website and […]
Exhibit Explores the Science, Power, and Beauty of Weather
Science and technology stories relating to humankind’s exploration of the weather are very interesting, and the immersive 2,000-square-foot “Weather Lab” that opened recently at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, in New Mexico, gives visitors an inspiring view of the inextricable relationship between weather and humanity. The exhibit features several educational and interactive weather pods […]
From Near Space, 100 Balloons with Cameras to Send Video of Eclipse
21 Aug, 2017. Photos of different eclipse stages taken by telephoto lens (All photos courtesy of Kelly Gorham/Montana State University) NASA, and its video platform Stream, will launch 100 balloons attached to cameras that will soar 100,000 feet above the Earth’s surface to provide us with live aerial footage of the solar eclipse on Monday, […]
Fifty Years of Balloon-Borne Ozone Research
In 1967, scientists launched a weather balloon from Marshall Mesa, in Colorado. The balloon carried a new instrument that could measure ozone levels from the ground to the edge of outer space — and radio the data back to a ground receiver. The instrument was an early version of today’s ozonesonde. This modest research project […]
How Do We Get Information About the Weather?
Scientists from NOAA’s ESRL launch a balloon, carrying instruments that measure water-vapor in the upper atmosphere. Credit: NOAA Twice a day, every day of the year, weather technicians release about six-foot round weather balloons from 900 locations worldwide. Weather balloons are made of latex or synthetic rubber (neoprene) and filled with hydrogen or helium—gases that […]
