GIANT NASA BALLOONS TAKE TO THE ANTARCTIC SKIES ON PIONEERING SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS
Image Credit AI Generated NASA's Annual Long Duration Balloon Campaign in Antarctica has been announced, an event that not only highlights the human ingenuity but also our constant search for knowledge beyond the earth's borders. We already have all the information available, both at www.nasa.gov/missions and www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons , a campaign that begins this coming December and is characterized by the launch of three scientific balloons from the vicinity of McMurdo Station. What makes these balloons special is their structure: they are zero pressure balloons , gigantic, comparable in size to a stadium. Its mission is to support five different investigations, and there is particularly high expectation surrounding one of them, which could break the current record of 55 days, 1 hour and 34 minutes< a i=4> in flight. This year's star project is GUSTO , whose objective is nothing less than to map extensive areas of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as well l