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NASA Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA … a_999.html
The GUSTO telescope is equipped with very sensitive detectors for carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen emission lines. Measuring these emission lines will give the GUSTO team deep insight into the full lifecycle of the interstellar medium, the cosmic material found between stars. GUSTO's science observations will be performed from Antarctica to allow for enough observation time aloft, access to astronomical objects, and solar power provided by the austral summer in the polar region.
Additional missions set to fly during the Antarctic LDB campaign include:
Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload (AESOP-Lite): The mission, led by a team from the University of Delaware and University of California Santa Cruz, will measure cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. These electron measurements will be compared to Voyager I and II, which reached interstellar space and have been measuring cosmic ray electrons since 2012 and 2018, respectively. AESOP-Lite will fly on a 60 million cubic feet balloon,
a test flight set to qualify the balloon for reaching altitudes greater than 150,000 feet,
which is higher than NASA's current stratospheric inventory.
Long durAtion evalUation solaR hand LAunch (LAURA): This engineering test flight, led by NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, will utilize solar panels to extend the science capability of the hand launch platform from a few days in flight to long-duration flights. Hand-launched balloons are about 40 times smaller in volume than the heavy-lift balloons and have limited time aloft due to the amount and weight of batteries used for powering the science and balloon instruments.
Anihala (Antarctic Infrasound Hand Launch): This piggyback payload on the AESOP-Lite launch, a cooperative mission between the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Sandia National Lab, aims to measure natural background sound in the stratosphere over a continent where human-generated sound is largely absent.
The flights of Helicopter Ingenuity are roughly equivalent to a helicopter flying at 34,000 m (112,000 ft) altitude in the atmosphere of Earth
This Balloon will fly 38,000 feet higher or 11,720 meters higher than Ingenuity's feat in Earth atmosphere so it can go higher
and yet people here insist they added up those numbers correctly and a Balloon will NEVER fly on Mars?
NASA C-130 makes first-ever flight to Antarctica for GUSTO balloon mission
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nasa-c-fi … ctica.html
The United States research station, operated by the National Science Foundation, is host to NASA's Antarctic long-duration balloon campaign
In the past they thought 'Very Large'
Earth History - How the Montgolfier brothers conquered the sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqqjKAOr68
the boost from the Sun, the solar balloon is a balloon that gains more buoyancy when the air inside is heated by solar radiation
Was JPL considering the Balloon?
Ambient gas-filled balloons appear quite viable on Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as solar-heated Montgolfieres.
I don't comprehend this as a 'Lander' or 'Air-Bag' why would you solar-heated a Montgolfiere type device if you invented on Landing?
'Inflatable Robotics for Planetary Applications'
https://web.archive.org/web/20100526205 … 1-0803.pdf
'Inflatable rovers appear to be the ideal means to transport payloads quickly across large distances on Mars, while inflatable aerovers can be used to navigate the skies, as well as the liquid and solid surfaces on Titan.'
8 Ways Roads Helped Rome Rule the Ancient World
https://www.history.com/news/8-ways-roa … ient-world
Explore eight reasons why this remarkable transit system helped unite the ancient world.
They were built to last.
Thanks to their ingenious design and careful construction, Roman roads remained technologically unequaled until as recently as the 19th century. But while modern asphalt highways might offer a smoother ride than the Via Domitiana or the Appian Way, Rome’s 2,000-year-old roadways take the prize for durability. Many Roman roads were used as major thoroughfares until only recently, and some—including the Via Flaminia and Britain’s Fosse Way—still carry car, bike and foot traffic or serve as the guiding route for highways. Rome’s enduring engineering legacy can also be seen in the dozens of ancient bridges, tunnels and aqueducts still in use today.
The Ford Nucleon: A Steam Engine Powered by Uranium Fission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop-ZxC3Xbs
MBTA says it needs at least $24.5 billion to repair its troubled system
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/16/ … -fix-mbta/
The MBTA needs a gobsmacking $24.5 billion to repair and replace
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