Astronomy students at West Ranch High School had the opportunity to launch a group of experiments of their own design into the stratosphere via a weather balloon on Thursday. Members of the 6th Annual Weather Balloon Launch team, students and staff gathered in the outdoor amphitheater at West Ranch High School during lunch to witness the launch. “An hour before ...
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West Ranch’s Weather Balloon Studies Radiation At Edge Of Atmosphere
The weather balloon that West Ranch High School students launched on Friday reached more than 80,000 feet and spent about two and a half hours in the air, to study radiation at the edge of the atmosphere.
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