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Two NASA balloons are heading to Antarctica — here’s what they’re searching for!

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The missions kicked off in early December ...
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NASA’s Antarctic balloon campaign is complete: Mission to detect anti-matter particles entering the Earth’s environment

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December. Four balloons were launched from a site near McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice ...
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NASA scientific balloon takes flight with student-built payloads

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New ...
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NASA super pressure balloons return to New Zealand for test flights

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift ...
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Degrees of Science: NASA's Scientific Balloon Program

(KWTX) - When you think of NASA research you likely think of rockets & satellites, but for over 30 years NASA has been performing high-altitude scientific research with balloons. In this week’s ...
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NASA explains what that mysterious, glowing dot above New Mexico was

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Sunday, people from eastern to western New Mexico, and even Arizona, were staring up into the sky, wondering about a mysterious floating dot. Well, it was a scientific balloon ...