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NASA Scientific Balloon in Antarctica
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NASA Scientific Balloon in Antarctica

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

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NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon, carrying Indiana University's Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST), was launched on December 25. After a circum-navigational flight around the South Pole, the payload landed on January 5.

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Credit lineNASA Scientific Balloon in Antarctica. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001793.
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