BHSU Staff Member Leads Local Student Ballooning Team to Help NASA Learn About Life on Mars
August 24, 2017
August 24, 2017
SPEARFISH, S.D., Aug. 24 -- Black Hills State University issued the following news:
Last year, NASA reached out to a group of local students to help them conduct an experiment that could help us understand where life could survive beyond Earth. On August 21, a group of local students joined with more than 50 other teams to release a balloon to the furthest reaches of the atmosphere - almost to outer space - to livestream the solar eclipse and carry bacteria for a NASA experiment.
Last year, NASA reached out to a group of local students to help them conduct an experiment that could help us understand where life could survive beyond Earth. On August 21, a group of local students joined with more than 50 other teams to release a balloon to the furthest reaches of the atmosphere - almost to outer space - to livestream the solar eclipse and carry bacteria for a NASA experiment.