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ASTHROS Mission

July 27 , 2020 1458 days 860 0
  • NASA is to launch ASTHROS Mission from Antarctica in December 2023.
  • The mission is to spend three weeks observing air currents above the continent.
  • ASTHROS is Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observation as Sub millimetre wavelengths.
  • It will send a football stadium sized balloons into the stratosphere.
  • The balloon will observe wavelengths of invisible light from the earth.
  • The Balloon is to be inflated with Helium.

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