Posts Tagged ‘atmosphere’

  • What is the surface of the Sun like?

    “Technically, there is no surface of the Sun,” says UW-Madison’s Sanjay Limaye.
    The senior scientist and educator with the Space Science and Engineering Center explains that unlike the hard, physical boundary here on Earth, the Sun’s surface is a hot mass of gas that is more or less continuous with its atmosphere.
    “The Sun is a star [...]


    Thursday, July 5th, 2007
  • Kites: A Cut-Rate Scientific Tool

    Scientific kites are back, flying payloads high into the atmosphere and delivering data at a fraction of the cost of satellites and specialized planes.


    Thursday, December 9th, 1999


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