NSF/NASA Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica

NSF/NASA Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:43:00 -0600

NASA and the National Science Foundation launched a scientific balloon on Monday, December 20, Eastern Standard time, to study the effects of cosmic rays on Earth. It was the first of five scientific balloons scheduled to launch from Antarctica in December.

The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM VI) experiment was designed and built at the University of Maryland. CREAM is investigating high-energy cosmic-ray particles that originated from distant supernovae explosions in the Milky ...

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