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WASHINGTON: NASA on Tuesday successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, super pressure balloon from New Zealand, that will help detect cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy as they penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere. The mission will run for 100 or more days floating at 33.5 km in the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitude band. “Following our 2015 and 2016 New Zealand missions, we’ve learned key ... Read More »