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NASA's Balloon Telescope

The sun camera is bigger than a 747

By Dawn Stover Posted 10.23.2007 at 2:56 pm 2 Comments

You don't need a rocket to send scientific instruments into space. A really big balloon works just as well, according to an international research team that plans to take a closer-than-ever look at the sun.

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