Near Space Corporation technician Mark Williamson and assistants check the prototype structural integrity data acquisition payload.
The NSC balloon carrying the NMT prototype data acquisition payload begins its ascent from the Madras, Ore., airport.
Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid's path.
