Sentences with phrase «carried by balloons»
A unique program makes approximately monthly measurements of the vertical profile of water vapor with frost point hygrometers carried by balloons at Boulder, Colorado.
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... X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, such measurements are made above the atmosphere by apparatus carried by balloons, rockets, or orbiting satellites.
Arizona - based World View Enterprises Inc. is developing a fleet of high - altitude platforms, called stratollites, carried by balloons to the edge of space.
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A few years ago, the nation was riveted by the plight of a little boy thought to have been carried away by a weather balloon, but often we barely register the many victims of foreign wars.
During the test, a large saucer - shaped disk carrying an inflatable inner tube - shaped decelerator and parachute system will be carried to an altitude of 120,000 feet by a giant balloon.
Recent shows have featured two 10 - year - olds, both named Laura, who meet because of a note carried across the United Kingdom by balloon; theories surrounding contagious laughter; and a parrot who helps a man manage anger problems.
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 high altitude balloon, launched by Vanderbilt, will carry a 12 pound payload or scientific instruments for research and a camera for live streaming.
Do I believe that a basket of humans being carried by a nylon balloon and fire is the safest form of aviation?
Post-script: There are some fun things to keep your eyes open for in the film's appealing Thanksgiving Day Parade scene, including blink and miss appearances by Sammy Davis Jr., Ricky Schroeder, and some E.T. balloons in addition to a float carrying Big Bird and giant parade balloons of Kermit the Frog and Woody Woodpecker.
At other times, the artist hurled bottles onto the canvas while raised on a platform or carried into the air by helicopter, hot - air balloon or crane.
Between the deep resonance of a bell sounded every 10 minutes (audio art originally created by Robert Farber signifying the rate of AIDS - related deaths in 1991), performance artist Joseph Ravens was followed by an ensemble of five all dressed in bright crimson chanted the words «condom cloud» in a hauntingly Gregorian manner as they paced through the museum carrying with balloons of dark gray inflated condoms above them
A radiosonde is a battery - powered telemetry instrument package carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.