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ASTHROS Mission

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    10Pointer
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  • Published
    25th Jul, 2020
  • NASA is to launch ASTHROS Mission from Antarctica in December 2023.
  • ASTHROS is Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observation as Sub millimetre wavelengths.
  • The ASTHROS Mission will send a football stadium sized balloons into the stratosphere.
  • The balloon will observe wavelengths of invisible light from the earth.
  • The Balloon is to be inflated with Helium.
  • The Mission will find answers about unsolved puzzles of giant stars and their formation in the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • The mission for the first time will detect and map the presence of two specific types of nitrogen ions.
  • The ASTHROS Mission of NASA aims to create a 3D map of density, motion, and speed of gas.

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