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    What’s up? A U of M weather balloon that students will discuss today

    By Sharon Schmickle | Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 7:30 am

    A weather balloon recently sent more than 100,000 feet into the sky over Hinckley, Minn., delivered clues to help answer questions about solar panels in space, cosmic radiation and other topics.

    The University of Minnesota students who sent the balloon aloft will discuss the findings from their experiment from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today in the lobby and main stairwell of Akerman Hall, 110 Union St. S.E., Minneapolis. They’ll also display an inflated weather balloon, payload boxes and a video of the launch.

    The experiment was part of a seminar that challenges students to design and build mini-spacecraft and use inexpensive high-altitude helium balloons to launch them into “near-space,” the upper reaches of the atmosphere where physical properties are the same as in outer space.

    More information about the project is available here.

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    Scientific Agenda reports on important and interesting developments from the world of science in Minnesota and elsewhere. Coverage includes reports from MinnPost journalist Sharon Schmickle, who has won many awards for her science journalism. She has also taken part in several science fellowships, including the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship at Cambridge University in England, the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Latin American fellowship sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Inc. in New York.




    Scientific Agenda also features material from other sources, including Inside Science News Service, a Washington, D.C.-based news service, which is supported by the not-for-profit American Institute of Physics, a publisher of scientific journals.

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