Heavy Cosmic Rays – Part I: The Flight of SuperTIGER-II
In December 2019, SuperTIGER clawed its way back into the upper atmosphere. The second flight of the SuperTIGER cosmic ray experiment, officially dubbed SuperTIGER-II, flew...
Category : Space and Atmospheric Physics
Heavy Cosmic Rays – Part II: The Death and Life of SuperTIGER-II
The season before SuperTIGER-II’s successful 2019 flight, the payload had an unexpectedly short flight over Antarctica. Brought down after less than a day because of...
Southernmost Telescope Gets an Array of Upgrades
One of the telescopes at the bottom of the world is getting a major upgrade. The South Pole’s venerable Keck Array is being reconstituted into...
Scientists prepare for rare Antarctic solar eclipse
Antarctica will experience a total solar eclipse next Saturday, a rare occurrence that will give scientists insight into the behavior of Earth’s upper atmosphere....
