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Scientists prepare to send a balloon to search for “messengers from outer space”

EUSO-SPB2 experiment, led by UChicago physicist Angela Olinto, planned to launch in 2023

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University of Chicago

Scientists prepare to send a balloon

image: NASA astrophysicist Tonia Venters and JEM-EUSO spokesperson Etienne Parizot review the partially assembled fluorescence telescope, part of a mission to fly 110,000 feet above the Earth to search for incoming particles, at the Colorado School of Mines. view more 

Credit: Photo by Angela Olinto


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