| By now I'm sure that you are at least minimally aware that I have been working on the BARREL team. And if you aren't aware you are now! BARREL, if you didn't know, was a fantastic little balloon mission where we flew over 50 balloons, 40 in Antartica during the primary mission and 14 in Sweden during our no-cost extensions. Our primary science objective, the thing we were paid to go study, was to study the loss of radiation belt particles to the upper atmosphere. We were hoping that since we were launching during the solar maximum there would be a ton of geomagnetic storms and lots of activity for us to study... |
Instead, we found that there was a lot of activity during very quiet conditions. Very interesting but not what we were expecting to see.
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