stratosphere
What Happens to the Climate When Earth Passes Through Interstellar Clouds?
Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly modern phenomenon. A team of researcher have recently calculated that Earth…
Spaceflight is Polluting the Atmosphere with Metal
Humans can't seem to interact with the environment at all without fouling it in some way. From plastic bags in…
Want to Soar to the Stratosphere? Japan Joins the Balloon Tourism Race
A Japanese company has put out the call for passengers who'd be willing to pay more than $175,000 for an…
Google Exec Hands Silicon Valley the Stratospheric Jump Record
Just a little over two years since Felix Baumgartner broke USAF Colonel Joseph Kittinger's stratospheric jump record, Alan Eustace from…
‘Star Trek’ Spaceship Model Soars Into Stratosphere
It was billed as the U.S. S. Enterprise's first "real" flight in space, but the spaceship didn't get quite that…
Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…
Toronto Teens Launch “Lego Man in Space”
[/caption] Updated:Jan. 30 Two teens from Toronto,Canada have launched “Lego Man in Space” using a helium filled weather balloon and…
Atmosphere Layers
[/caption] Seen from space, the Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, like a slight haze around the planet. But the atmosphere…