Sentences with phrase «altitude weather balloon»

Adam Smith, a Hood River sixth - grade math, science, and language arts teacher, came across a video online called «Hello Kitty Goes to Space,» showing a seventh - grade student launching a high - altitude weather balloon into the atmosphere and capturing data while in flight.

«I clicked it, and it was a story about a seventh - grade student who decided to launch a high - altitude weather balloon into the top of the lower reaches of our atmosphere as an after - school project.»

Aug. 24, 2017 — A high - altitude weather balloon rose yesterday from a Vanderbilt garage rooftop to the edge of space to live - stream the eclipse from above Nashville and record the temporary atmospheric changes it caused.

«I believe delivery of the sulfide gas into the stratosphere is envisaged either by artillery shell, high - altitude weather balloon or aircraft,» Ian Stimpson, a senior lecturer on geophysics at Keele University, told Earther.

While initiatives are still at work to increase global access to internet connection — such as programs like Google's Project Loon that literally plans to use high - altitude weather balloons floating over various regions around the world to provide internet access to places that otherwise wouldn't have it for decades — there's no point in having internet access if you can't afford a device to connect.

Not exact matches

Knighton's predecessors at MSU came up with a cheaper alternative: weather balloons, $ 250 - 600 apiece, that can float to altitudes of 100,000 feet.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

They carried out low - altitude aerial photography with a weather balloon in order to detect landscape features and the borders of mass graves.

At Pinnacle High School, Michaels Near Space Team is one of only a handful of programs in the country that do high altitude science and fly payloads to the edge of space via weather balloons.

To measure the thermal winds, they studied data on the motion of weather balloons at different altitudes in the atmosphere.

Therefore we reasoned that, by studying the experimental temperature profiles (e.g., using weather balloons), we could quantify the magnitude of the greenhouse effect for each profile at all altitudes, by subtracting the parts of the temperature profile that could be explained in terms of the thermodynamic properties of the bulk gases (i.e., nitrogen & oxygen).

Early studies were ground based at high altitude, from weather balloons and high - flying aircraft.

I am looking for weather balloon data with the basics: date, location, altitude and temperature.

It can detect altitude, temperature, humidity, and motion, but I wasn't ready for building robots or weather balloons just yet, so I stuck to making voice assistants.