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NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
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NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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Pumping helium into the first BARREL balloon to launch from Halley Research Satation. Credit: NASA --- In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists launched 20 balloons up into the air to study an enduring mystery of space weather: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go?

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Credit lineNASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001472.
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