It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth. If you’re trying ... to be a very small solution for high-altitude tracking. As you might have guessed from ...

The Earth's gravitational field is pulling on ... to predict the oxygen deprivation a mountaineer faces at high altitude. For the most part, this relationship works quite well.

During a total solar eclipse, the corona comes into view as faint wisps ... 57 plane can fly at an altitude of 60,000 feet, well above any clouds and high enough that Earth’s atmosphere won ...

In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open baskets to polyethylene balloons and metal pressurized gondolas that allow for high-altitude atmospheric ...

While the device is deceptively simple, it is possible to get a balloon to very high ... altitude followed by a gas explosion. The crew barely managed to parachute out at 150 meters above the Earth.