UA Students Part Of NASA Project To Capture Solar Eclipse From Near Space

Alabama News Center | August 17, 2017 @ 5:55 pm

By Adam JonesUniversity of Alabama

A group of students at the University of Alabama plan to launch a balloon to take video of the solar eclipse next week as part of a nationwide science project led by NASA.

Similar to a weather balloon, the UA balloon should rise 100,000 feet in the air, high enough to see the curvature of the Earth, and send live video of the eclipse to a website as part of the NASA Space Grant network’s Eclipse Ballooning Project.

With 55 balloon teams, the NASA project aims to livestream the eclipse over the internet as it travels southeast across the continental United States on Monday.“The first time I heard about this project, I thought it was amazing,” said Haley Miller, a team member and senior from Spartanburg, South Carolina, who is studying aerospace engineering. “I’ve never seen an eclipse, so this is just a once-in-a-lifetime event.”

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