Sentences with phrase «weather balloons into»

«We are sending a weather balloon into the stratosphere to do microbial sampling,» Jorgensen says.

«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.»

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.

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.

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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.

This is weather that balloonists dream of, which is why, from 1 November, the three - man crew of the balloon Earthwinds Hilton will be waiting there, ready to jump into their lightweight capsule and circle the globe nonstop — a trip that -LSB-...]

This is weather that balloonists dream of, which is why, from 1 November, the three - man crew of the balloon Earthwinds Hilton will be waiting there, ready to jump into their lightweight capsule and circle the globe nonstop — a trip that is expected to take less than three weeks.

«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.

For a week beginning on March 9th we plan to launch a series of space weather balloons equipped with cosmic ray sensors and cameras into the stratosphere above the Arctic Circle.

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 →

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.

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.

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.

If you look from the surface of the Earth right up into the stratosphere, 20 miles above the surface of the Earth, what we've actually observed in weather balloon measurements and satellite measurements is this complex pattern of warming low down and cooling up high.

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.

To calculate the molar densities from the weather balloon measurements, we converted all of the pressures and temperatures into units of Pa and K, and then determined the values at each pressure using D = n / V =P / RT, where R is the ideal gas constant (8.314 J / K / mol)

First, they chop up the atmosphere into byte - sized chunks based on input from things like weather balloons and orbiting satellites, and then they run a whole series of mathematical equations to figure out the most likely future state of weather patterns — a process that's hugely computer intensive — indeed, some of the world's most powerful computers are used to forecast the weather.

While the satellite dataset has its strengths, unlike thermometers and temperature probes used on weather balloons the Microwave Sounding Units were new, largely untested tools when they were put into space.

Over the years the makers of weather balloons had come up with better methods of preventing or correcting for this effect, but because no one had taken these improvements into account, the more accurate measurements appeared to show daytime temperatures getting cooler.

An article published in the Coral Springs Talk on Feb. 8, six days before the shootings, names Hogg as a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and features a documentary he made about astronomy students» efforts to launch a weather balloon and an attached craft into space.