{"id":4034,"date":"2017-04-26T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:05:49","slug":"eighth-time-lucky-nasa-launches-super-balloon-collect-near-space-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/eighth-time-lucky-nasa-launches-super-balloon-collect-near-space-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth time lucky: NASA launches super balloon to collect near space data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stadium-sized pressure balloon launched by NASA in New Zealand began collecting data in near space on Wednesday, beginning a 100-day planned journey after several launch attempts were thwarted by storms and cyclones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The balloon, designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to detect ultra-high energy cosmic particles from beyond the galaxy as they penetrate the earth\u2019s atmosphere, is expected to circle the planet two or three times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe origin of these particles is a great mystery that we\u2019d like to solve. Do they come from massive black holes at the centre of galaxies? Tiny, fast-spinning stars? Or somewhere else?\u201d Angela Olinto, a University of Chicago professor and lead investigator on the project, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon\u2019s monitoring was only the start of a long quest which would next involve a space mission currently being designed by NASA, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon, launched on Tuesday in Wanaka, a scenic spot on New Zealand\u2019s South Island, will collect data from 34 km (21.1 miles) above the earth.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand was also the base for NASA\u2019s scientific balloon programme in 2015 and 2016.\u2014Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Image: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stadium-sized pressure balloon launched by NASA in New Zealand began collecting data in near space on Wednesday, beginning a 100-day planned journey after several launch attempts were thwarted by storms and cyclones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}