The High-Altitude Balloon (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The High-Altitude Balloon

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The high-altitude balloon that carried the HySICS instruments to the outermost part of Earth's atmosphere was inflated with helium at sunrise on the morning of Sept. 29, 2013.

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HySICS Team/LASP

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