Blinded me with Science
From
NASA Science News:
Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm
April 19, 2012: Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in Bishop, California, knew just what to do.
They launched a rubber chicken.
The students inflated a helium balloon and used it to send the fowl, named "Camilla," to an altitude of 120,000 ft where she was exposed to high-energy solar protons at point blank range.
Actually a very cool experiment -- there is a lot more going on than just Camilla.
Posted by DaveH at April 20, 2012 1:03 PM