stratosphere
Massive Explosions Dubbed 'The Anomaly' Help Reveal Mysteries In the Sky
Infrasound waves from munitions explosions can be used to improve the accuracy of weather reports, among many other applications.
Earth Microbes Can Survive on the Surface of Mars, Study Suggests
Microbes took a balloon to the stratosphere, where some of them proved resilient to Mars-like conditions.
Climate Change Might Be Messing Up Volcanoes’ Planet-Cooling Powers
Volcanoes spew ash into the stratosphere that reflects back some sunlight.
Climate Change Might Be Messing Up Volcanoes’ Planet-Cooling Powers
Volcanoes spew ash into the stratosphere that reflects back some sunlight.
Canadian Redditors Are On the Hunt for a Lost Space Balloon
It was in Bobcaygeon that I saw the constellations reveal themselves one balloon at a time.
Google Learned How to Make Its Internet Balloons By Studying Condoms
"Doritos bags, sausage casings, condoms: They're all important things to not have leak for different reasons"
This Scientist Says He Keeps Finding Aliens in the Stratosphere
"All the time when you walk outside, you are being pelted with organisms that come from space."
I Sent a Lamb Chop into Space to Promote My Book
What could be more ridiculous than sending some actual meat into actual space? And how easy would it be?
Joe Kittinger Was Jumping From the Stratosphere Before It Was Cool
Within the year, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner hopes to break the record for the highest free fall jump. Retired U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger holds the current record, one he set in 1960. And, though acting as Baumgartner’s advisor...