‘science’ Archives
Up, up & away to a world record : National »
March 5 at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16' X 16' house 18' tall with 300 8' colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles. The experiment set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever [...]
Pictures of the Day : Sun Blast of 2011 »
Wired Magazine has an article about the current state of our solar exposure : The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it’s sending jets of charged particles right at Earth. The spray will spark bright auroras when it hits the magnetosphere in the next 24 to 48 hours. A cluster of sunspots called Active Region 1158 [...]
