Sentences with phrase «aloft by balloons»

This is a multimedia retrospective of her attempts to, among other astonishments, play the cello in midair, borne aloft by balloons.

In addition, floating planks held aloft by balloons will be scattered around Hyrule.

His two newest works in the Turner prize, a slide sequence of of a stream moving over a bicycle wheel drowned in the shallows, and a colour film of a little tape recorder being hoisted aloft by a balloon, are extremely deceptive.

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Between December 1991 and March 1992, the amount of pollution in the stratosphere above Thule, in Greenland, was monitored from the ground and instruments sent aloft beneath balloons launched by the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Borne aloft by a helium balloon, the Super-TIGER probe flew over Antarctica for 55 days, searching for fragments of stars.

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise — carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 — scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.

The piece, essentially a line drawing in space, is held aloft by a red helium balloon above and anchored to the ground by a heavy stone below.

When people began sending balloons aloft to measure the temperature of the air in the stratosphere they could avoid the influence of solar radiation that was thought to be affecting the readings given by thermometers by sending the balloons up at night.

Temperatures aloft can be measured in a number of ways, two of which are useful for climate monitoring: by radiosondes (balloon - borne instrument packages, including thermometers, released daily or twice daily at a network of observing stations throughout the world), and by satellite measurements of microwave radiation emitted by oxygen gas in the lower to mid-troposphere, taken with an instrument known as the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU).5 The balloon measurements are taken at the same Greenwich mean times each day, whereas the times of day of the satellite measurements for a given location drift slowly with changes in the satellite orbits.

When you think of the movie «Up» you probably think of the old man's house floating through the air, being held aloft by a very large bunch of colorful balloons.