NEBP Media Coverage

Unique studies of gravity waves, atmospheric holes and dazzling coronal displays will accompany April’s total solar eclipse across the U.S., Mexico and Canada...

This Press Conference is 244th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Madison, Wisconsin on June 12th 2024, presented by Dr. Angela Des Jardins.

Unique studies of gravity waves, atmospheric holes and dazzling coronal displays will accompany April’s total solar eclipse across the U.S., Mexico and Canada...

During the morning on Saturday, Oct. 14 over 1,000 balloons will float 20 miles up in the stratosphere over Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas just as a solar eclipse sweeps across the U.S Southwest...

Teams of high school and college students from across the country are preparing small experiments to accomplish big science during two upcoming eclipses. Through the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), students will gain real-world STEM experience and contribute valuable scientific and engineering data through their projects, which will be carried by weather balloons into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere...

 

Last December, university students from the Idaho, Oklahoma and Montana Space Grant Consortia traveled to Santiago, Chile under strict COVID-19 protocols to assist NASA and the National Science Foundation with first-of-its-kind solar eclipse research...

High-altitude weather balloons are taking Olin students to the edge of space. This summer, four students, one alum, and faculty member Christopher Lee are measuring cosmic rays thousands of feet above Earth as part of a NASA Science Activation program (SciAct) project...

 

UND scientists, students launch weather balloons in Colorado to track atmospheric changes caused by solar eclipse...

A team of Mechanical Engineering students operating a high-altitude balloon outfitted with cameras helped live stream the recent annular eclipse as part of NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Balloon Project (NEBP). The group’s effort is shown in its YouTube video, 10/14 Annual Eclipse Ballooning Highlights...

 

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana State University engineering students successfully completed their goal of the nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project...

BOZEMAN – Julius Caesar said experience is the teacher of all things, and after conducting scientific experiments on the edge of space during the recent annular solar eclipse, members of Montana State University’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project engineering team couldn’t agree more...

 

Earlier this month, a large, white object carrying a string of pink boxes was seen floating through the sky not far from Roswell, New Mexico, but no one is blaming aliens, as was the case during the community’s 1947 UFO incident...

The Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project is a NASA-funded experiment that supports college teams that took part in scientific ballooning during Saturday’s solar eclipse...

A team of six students and two faculty members are heading this week to New Mexico to conduct research during the weekend's annular eclipse as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP)...

(Riverton, WY) – Counting down from 10, because that’s what NASA does, Central Wyoming College launched a high altitude balloon just after 9 am on Monday morning, July 31. This was their first test launch for the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation...

 

A team from St. Catherine University has received a grant from the Montana Space Consortium to participate in the National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP). Through the NEBP, teams of high school and college students from across the country will conduct research during upcoming solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024 by sending weather balloons into the upper reaches of the earth’s atmosphere...

 

Over the next year, six St. Cloud State University College of Science and Engineering (COSE) students along with faculty lead, Assistant Professor Rachel Humphrey, are preparing to take part in the NASA Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP)...

Plymouth State’s Cluster Learning model emphasizes projects that go beyond classroom walls—sometimes far beyond. Interdisciplinary teams of PSU students and faculty are part of a nationwide effort that will explore phenomenon miles above the Earth as part of the NASA funded, Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project...  

 

 

MACON — A team from Mercer University School of Engineering has been selected to participate in the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), which will immerse students in a NASA mission to collect and analyze data through stratospheric ballooning during upcoming annular and total solar eclipses...

 

 

UM staff and students traveled 6,500 miles to southern Chile in the middle of a pandemic, during finals, to launch 100 weather balloons in bad weather to study a total solar eclipse. Could anything go wrong? ...