Living With a Star

NASA robotic space probe to probe the outer corona of the Sun

ESA solar probe

solar observatory

NASA space mission in the Van Allen radiation belts

scientific program of NASA to study the Sun-Earth system

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