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Caption: A NASA Super Pressure Balloon with the COSI payload is ready for launch from McMurdo, Antarctica. Credit:...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A BARREL team member watches as one of their payloads launches from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016....
The BARREL team prepares to launch their third payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, on Aug. 21,...
The faint green glow of aurora can be seen above the clouds at Esrange Space Center in this photo from Aug. 23,...
Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A member of the BARREL team prepares a payload for launch from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout...
Prior to launch, the BARREL team works on the payload from the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
A BARREL team member recovers the second payload after it landed. The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near...
For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles...
BARREL researchers get ready to release the top part of the balloon, called the bubble, as it fills with enough...
Some of the BARREL balloon launches took place at the South African National Antarctic Expedition Research base,...
A view looking over the payload – the instruments that fly under a balloon – while the BARREL balloon inflates. The...
The BARREL team prepares to release the second scientific balloon in its Sweden campaign on Aug. 13, 2015. In...
A BARREL balloon floats into the sky as it is partially filled. When fully inflated, each balloon is 90 feet in...
Getting ready to lay out a BARREL balloon to prepare for inflation. The helium stillages used to fill the balloon...
Pumping helium into the first BARREL balloon to launch from Halley Research Satation. Credit: NASA --- In Antarctica...
A crane lowers two BARREL balloon payloads onto the platform at Halley Research Station in Antarctica. Credit: NASA...
Release of a BARREL balloon. The launch crew can be seen on the right holding the payload as the top of the balloon...
BARREL team members run under the payload as the balloon first takes flight at the SANAE IV research station in...
The BARREL team at Halley Research Station in Antarctica, work to inflate a balloon. The long tube on the left is...
Watching a BARREL balloon – and the instruments dangling below – float up over the SANAE IV research base in...
Liftoff! A balloon begins to rise over the brand new Halley VI Research Station, which had its grand opening in...