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Super Good at Collecting Data, Massive Science Balloon Breaks Records

5 Feb , 2013 by John Williams

Super-TIGER prepares for launch from Antarctica. NASA’s Super-TIGER science balloon landed Friday at a frigid and remote base in Antarctica after setting two duration records while gathering data about cosmic rays. There’s so much data that it will take scientists about two years to analyze, according to NASA. Launched December 8, 2012 from the Long […]

antarctica, BLAST, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmic rays, EBEX, McMurdo Station, NASA's Balloon Program, NSF, Super-TIGER

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