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U of I joins NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project to explore gravity waves during rare celestial events

A dozen and a half people stand in front of U of I dorms.A team of University of Idaho engineering students is helping NASA gather complex datasets on gravity waves.

BY Alexiss Turner

Photos by University of Idaho

June 3, 2024

A team of University of Idaho engineering students is helping NASA gather complex datasets scientists have been trying to capture for decades, data that can improve global weather forecast models and our understanding of the atmosphere.

U of I is a lead university in the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), and has been training four university teams in the Pacific Northwest all year long to successfully track and gather data on gravity waves using weather balloons. 

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Exploring gravity waves during the eclipse

U of I students learn how to successfully track and gather data on gravity waves using weather balloons.

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