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You know those aren't just weather balloons in the sky.

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

Not exact matches

The Firefox logo has been etched into the lawns in college quads, spray - painted on highway overpasses, baked into pancakes, sent up 100,000 feet on a weather balloon, and crayoned onto countless human faces.

Rated among the best high schools in Florida, Stoneman Douglas has won five national math championships, has the state's top marching band and boasts science and engineering programs where students fly weather balloons and drones.

The aim is to launch weather balloons that project Wi - Fi access in remote locations around the world.

Just in case your sunrise balloon flight must be cancelled — due to unfavorable weather conditions — you can still experience Temecula aloft in our «Travel Air» Biplane at the same cost and value as the balloon flight!

Monte De Oro Winery Breakfast with the Balloons / June 4 / 6:30 am to 9 am / Join us for a Breakfast Buffett while we watch (hopefully and weather permitting and being cooperative) hot air balloons float over wine country in conjunction with the 2017 Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine FBalloons / June 4 / 6:30 am to 9 am / Join us for a Breakfast Buffett while we watch (hopefully and weather permitting and being cooperative) hot air balloons float over wine country in conjunction with the 2017 Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Fballoons float over wine country in conjunction with the 2017 Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival.

Friday and Saturday evenings hot air balloons shine while grounded in the evening balloon glow (weather permitting.)

Our balloon meister in conjunction with the local fire department are trained and qualified to evaluate the weather forecast and current conditions and decide if it is safe to operate the balloons.

The National Eclipse Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as temperature and wind speed.

Susan Solomon and colleagues at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration combined satellite measurements and weather balloon data to track changes in the concentration of water vapour 16 kilometres up in the stratosphere, between the 1980s and today.

On 19 April, Giles Harrison at the University of Reading in the UK and colleagues used detectors aboard a weather balloon to measure the charge in the ash cloud over Scotland.

Launching weather balloons is difficult in heavy winds.

Atmospheric scientists are analyzing data from weather balloons and satellites for clues to how the ozone will fare when sunlight — a third factor in ozone loss — returns to the Arctic.

A team from Fukushima University recently mapped radiation levels at 370 spots in the prefecture and, using weather balloons, confirmed that atmospheric radiation levels have dropped to near background levels.

The M.I.T. and Georgia Tech teams proved most successful in using social networks to pinpoint the locations of 10 red weather balloons scattered throughout the U.S.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

As a middle school student in Tallahassee, Florida, Kelly Caylor built a weather balloon for the science fair.

Manuel Cebrian, a computational social scientist now based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Clayton, Australia, won that challenge with his colleagues by using social media to hunt down 10 red weather balloons released across the United States.

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 dowIn 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 dowin 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.

CubeSats are ideally poised for studying space storms in the lower areas of the atmosphere, which are too high for weather balloons and too low for larger satellites to survive.

A small group of meteorologists headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma, had for decades employed ingenious means: instrumented probes, weather balloons, and small radar systems.

Liftport unsuccessfully tried to produce carbon nanotubes and carried out some balloon and tether tests in an effort to sell weather data for revenue.

Tweets and status updates have been buzzing for weeks about DARPA's Network Challenge, even though the event does not officially kick off until 10 A.M. Eastern time Saturday when hundreds of technophiles will compete in an effort to be the first to track down the locations of 10 large red weather balloons positioned across the U.S. throughout the day (pdf).

The STS - 111 aircraft, which is still in prototype, is in essence a worm - like weather balloon that undulates through the Earth's lower atmosphere, guided by satellite or ground communications or programmed to operate autonomously.

In August Sherwood and his collaborators published the results of a study that corrected for the heating effect of direct sunlight on older weather balloons.

Because ozone in the troposphere is a precursor to OH, they deployed weather balloons equipped with measuring devices known as sondes to measure the amount of ozone in the air from the surface to the stratosphere.

In addition to the surface data described above, measurements of temperature above the surface have been made with weather balloons, with reasonable coverage over land since 1958, and from satellite data since 1979.

From the 1947 weather balloon crash in Roswell, New Mexico, to crop circles in England, they've largely joined the debate only to debunk some very dubious claims.

Earlier in the week, we flew these bubble chambers to the Arctic stratosphere using a space weather balloon.

The satellite record is in agreement with other independent weather balloon records.

This involves a combination of satellite observations (when different satellites captured temperatures in both morning and evening), the use of climate models to estimate how temperatures change in the atmosphere over the course of the day, and using reanalysis data that incorporates readings from surface observations, weather balloons and other instruments.

New Scientific Discovery: Siberian Atmospheric Rivers: Part 4 of 4 / / Published on Mar 1, 2018 A Russian icebreaker in the Arctic sailed from open ocean water into thin sea - ice continuing into thicker sea - ice and sent weather balloons aloft every... Continue reading →

The number of acres of forest burning yearly in large Western fires ballooned nine-fold from 1984 to 2015, with climate pollution and natural changes in the weather playing roughly equal roles in driving the deadly trend, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded.

«We had a clear idea in mind of what we wanted to do upon retrieving our weather balloon,» recalls Smith.

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.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

Teachers at Hood River come together on more robust cross-curricular activities rooted in their community, ranging from field trips to the Columbia River Gorge to launching a weather balloon into the Earth's atmosphere.

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.

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.

Hot air ballooning in Mpumalanga and surrounds is an all - year - round activity because of the generally good weather conditions throughout the year.

Some recurring characters including a jokester robot and a longhaired rocksmith (whose van you weather - balloon into the sky every other mission) mark your progress with commentary on the state of humanity against the big purple clouds in the sky.

For this video Renema collaborated with SendIntoSpace, a company that specialises in commercial flights with stratospheric weather balloons.

Boursier - Mougenot's attention to movement stems from his background in theater.2 Recognizing that he did not wish to be the performer onstage in his art, the artist has developed pieces for stand - in players — amplified beehives, live finches on electric guitars, cherry pits falling onto a drum kit, vacuum cleaners blowing into harmonicas, and helium weather balloons dragging around a tethered microphone.

Drawing on readily - available objects utilised in daily life, Morrison's composite sculptures begin as disparate Duchampian readymades: weather balloons, bullets, mannequin busts and shopping carts, just to list a few.

Known for her anthropomorphic weather balloon sculptures in her four - decades - long practice, she deeply explores the architecture of the body, reducing the feminine body to its most elemental features and manipulating them into minimal objects imbued with acidic humor and absurd hypersexuality.

The weather balloon sags in places and shakes dramatically with even the deftest of touches.

The Best Available Evidence's sculptural components are still coming together during our studio visit (and do include a representative weather balloon) but Marino excitedly mentions the audio portion of the exhibition, which required her to reach out to voice actors through Craigslist («I was posting ads in cities all over the place,» she states) to read testimonies from UFO eyewitnesses, some fabricated by Marino herself.

Rebecca Marino pushes gently against the deflating weather balloon that has taken up residence in a corner of her studio.

The various images of John F. Kennedy, weather balloons, instruments, and plates, as in the Combines, create a field of association not unlike the deluge of information found in a newspaper or on television.