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20170104_0009

Préparation du vol de la nacelle CLIMAT à la base de lancement de ballons d'Alice Springs

Preparing the CLIMAT gondola for flight, with the CARMEN gondola visible in the background at the Alice Springs balloon launch base in Australia. The CLIMAT mission ( Combination of Lasers and Instruments for in situ Measurement of the Atmosphere of Earth) concerns a group of experiments by French and European laboratories aimed at furthering research into atmospheric physics and chemistry. CLIMAT is a 240kg gondola, carried under a 150,000 cu. m balloon to a ceiling altitude of 33 km. For example, its 2015 flight enabled scientists to identify a 10% increase in methane in columns between 0 km and 15 km between 2000 and 2015; this important finding was subsequently reported at the COP21 climate conference.

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