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Backyard scientists, Steve Sapienza and Rob Marks, sent a homemade weather balloon up into the stratosphere. This weather balloon carried a payload, which was basically a bright-orange styrofoam cooler padded with some sound-proof foam. The payload contained a GPS and video camera, with a goal of capturing video 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. After […]
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Rare Upper Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted in Taiwan
Check out this video shot in Taiwan on August 20, 2014 that shows a pretty rare atmospheric phenomena called gigantic jets. Gigantic jets occur in the upper levels of the atmosphere; the stratosphere and mesosphere. Most of our sensible weather occurs in the troposphere, the lowest level of the atmosphere. Gigantic jets occur above thunderstorms […]