Jonathan, This is outstanding. I will be watching closely to see how "Team Pegasus" does. Thanks for filling me in. Rodger -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Project Pegasus Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:59 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Great Project that Some of us may want to try We have tried this on multiple occasions. We have launched balloons in Colorado, Utah, and Phoenix. We learned a lot of things from each flight. Yes the pictures are remarkable and so is the data you can get back. Our balloons have gone higher than 108,000 feet and brought pictures and data back. We also found out there was contest held by NASA to propose an experiment that you would like NASA take to Near Space on their balloon. There were four teams chosen nationally to go back to NASA in May to send their experiment on the NASA balloon; and compete against the other 3 teams chosen (all east coast teams).Our team based on a group of four high school students (from Stansbury high) and the advisors(myself, Mihir, Larry) was chosen and will be traveling back to NASA in May to compete against 3 other teams that were chosen to what NASA calls "Flight Days". All four teams will be judged on who comes up with the best experiment and conclusion. I recently found out there is less moisture in the stratosphere than previously thought. This is leading to why the earth is not heating as fast as people expected. So our experiment is to not only gather the moisture, temp, altitude along the flight but carry on an experiment that passes heat through the stratosphere moisture barrier and see how the results are and baseline them against historical data on the stratosphere and ground testing we will be doing beforehand. We are looking forward to the competition and are currently working with the High School students to get our experiment together. if anyone wants to do it, you can look at our site, or we would be glad to answer any questions. Our NASA team is called team Daedelus and our balloon team is called team pegasus. -- Jonathan & Mihir (Project Pegasus Team) http://sites.google.com/site/viewearthfromspace _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com