Balloon-borne experiments

balloon released into the stratosphere, most commonly weather balloons

Swedish photographer, scientist and writer (1885–1967)

experiment designed to study ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos by detecting the radio pulses emitted by their interactions with the Antarctic ice sheet

flying sun-powered vehicles

experiment to determine the composition of cosmic rays

300px|thumb|A crane lowers two BARREL balloon payloads onto the platform at Halley Research Station in Antarctica thumb|A balloon begins to rise over the brand new Halley VI Research Station, which had its grand opening in February 2013 Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL, sometimes called Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses) was a NASA mission operated out of Dartmouth College that worked with the Van Allen Probes mission (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission). The BARREL project launched a series of high-altitud