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Giant Balloon To Hunt Potentially Dazzling Comet ISON
Friday, September 27, 2013 15:11
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A colossal NASA balloon is poised to carry a free-hanging gondola sky-high on a mission to take a gander at celestial grandeur: Comet ISON.
Weather permitting, NASA’s Balloon Rapid Response for Comet ISON (BRRISON) gondola and science instruments are to ascend from the space agency’s Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, N.M., possibly by Sunday (Sept. 29).
The one-day balloon mission’s target is Comet ISON, an incoming comet that some scientists have billed as a potential “comet of the century” because it could flare up to spectacular brilliance after a close flyby of the sun in late November.
The sun-approaching Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars in this amazing space wallpaper taken in April 2013 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Along with a 0.8-meter telescope, NASA’s reusable BRRISON balloon gondola will carry infrared and near-ultraviolet/visible imaging gear, along with fine-steering mirror technology to obtain high pointing stability while observing Comet ISON.
NASA’s giant BRRISON project balloon will be taller than the Washington Monument at sea level when it launches to hunt Comet ISON. Once it has reached its goal altitude — for this mission, around 120,000 feet — the balloon will expand to a size larger than a football field.