This summer, a handful of Montana college students will use high-flying balloons to learn about the earth’s atmosphere.
Montana State University in a news release Monday says seven of its engineering students are traveling to Spain in August to be part of the university’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project.
This is the sixth time students have used balloons to send equipment above the clouds and to the boundary of the stratosphere during a total eclipse.They will take photos of earth and gather data at different stages of the phenomenon.
Students from Connecticut, Florida, Idaho and Kentucky will also travel to Spain and Iceland to study the conditions before, during and after the eclipse on August 12.
MSU staff say the experiments they conduct will help scientists learn more about the climate.
