On Jan. 18, 2016, the GRIPS balloon team sent their instrument soaring towards the stratosphere above Antarctica, suspended underneath a helium-filled, football-field sized scientific balloon. GRIPS, short for Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares, is studying extremely high-energy radiation released by…
from The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1Nkk84O
via IFTTT