{"id":36090,"date":"2020-07-28T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-is-building-balloon-big-as-a-football-stadium\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:11:00","slug":"nasa-is-building-balloon-big-as-a-football-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-is-building-balloon-big-as-a-football-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA is building balloon big as a football stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA is building balloon big as a football stadium<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 28, 2020 |<\/span> 3:11pm <\/p>\n

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\n NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab\/Michael Lentz<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n Sending an observatory into space is typically handled by a rocket. You cram the spacecraft into a payload bay, fire it into space, and then deploy it in orbit around Earth. For NASA\u2019s ASTHROS observatory, the space agency has come up with an entirely different strategy for getting its hardware to the edge of space: a very, very large balloon.<\/p>\n

ASTHROS \u2014 which is short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter wavelengths \u2014 includes some high-tech instruments for observing space, but first, it has to break free of much of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. To make that happ<\/a>en, NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing a balloon that stretches 400 feet wide, which is roughly the size of a football stadium.<\/p>\n

The mega-balloon will carry ASTHROS to an altitude of nearly 25 miles. As NASA explains, that\u2019s right in a sweet spot between the upper limit of commercial aircraft and the edge of space itself:<\/p>\n

ASTHROS observes far-infrared light, or light with wavelengths much longer than what is visible to the human eye. To do that, ASTHROS will need to reach an altitude of about 130,000 feet (24.6 miles) \u2013 roughly four times higher than commercial airliners fly. Though still well below the boundary of space (about 62 miles above Earth\u2019s surface), it will be high enough to observe light wavelengths blocked by Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The mission will see the balloon carry the observatory around the South Pole where it can peer into space, using its far-infrared instruments to capture light and make new observations. NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes the balloon will be capable of keeping the hardware flying high for up to 28 days, which would allow it to circle the South Pole up to three times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s understood that stellar feedback is the main regulator of star formation throughout the universe\u2019s history,\u201d Jorge Pineda, principal investigator of ASTHROS at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement. \u201cComputer simulations of galaxy evolution still can\u2019t quite replicate the reality that we see out in the cosmos. The nitrogen mapping that we\u2019ll do with ASTHROS has never been done before, and it will be exciting to see how that information helps make those models more accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the mission is over, the team will remotely detach the balloon from the gondola holding the ASTHROS hardware. When the gondola detaches, a parachute will be activated that will provide the sensitive hardware with a relatively soft landing. The scientists will then recover the machine and make any repairs or changes that are needed before sending it back into the sky again.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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