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NASA's BARREL Mission in Sweden
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The third BARREL balloon floats towards the stratosphere on Aug. 21, 2016. This payload flew for nearly 30 hours, measuring X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere. The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles.
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Credit lineNASA's BARREL Mission in Sweden. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000231.
