It’s well known that during World War II the Japanese put bombs on huge balloons and let them loose. The prevailing winds in the northern hemisphere blow from west to east. So if you put ...

Globally, hundreds of thousands of weather balloons are launched into the sky every year, and the majority are never recovered. Instead, their waste—a mix of latex, cotton and plastics—remains ...

It will come from some of the numerous helium weather balloons set to be launched 100,000 ... of 80,000 feet in the stratosphere, where the sky is black and the curvature of the Earth is visible.

The weather balloons and GPS radiosondes can measure all levels of the atmosphere up to around 80,000 feet, providing real-time weather data every second. This information is then sent to the ...

He explains that outside the Earth’s atmosphere space looks black, but from the Earth’s surface the sky looks blue. He investigates this effect by launching a weather balloon. The helium ...

When a Mangilao resident woke up the morning of Jan. 25 and discovered an unusual orange parachute-like object with various ...

[David] notes that using some pretty simple gear, he could track down weather balloons. The U.S. National Weather Service sends up a large number of radiosondes attached to balloons twice a day.

As Valentine's Day approaches, FirstEnergy Corp. is urging everyone to celebrate safely by keeping helium-filled foil ...

We go according to the wind and the weather.” Ballooning isn ... Benedict’s big dream is to have a sky filled with 30 to 50 balloons at once. “I want to see 30 balloons take off in one ...