FORT COLLINS, Colorado, Aug. 5 -- Colorado State University posted the following news release:

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Up, up and away: Weather balloon research boosts transportation planning

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After a few shots of helium to inflate it, a white weather balloon launched from CSU's Foothills Campus Thursday and rose to heights of 42,000 feet in the troposphere, gathering data needed by the Colorado Department of Transportation to make a variety of decisions a . . .

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