What Harvard's solar-geoengineering experiment will do
The balloon will fly back and forth, analyzing how the cloud behaves so we can build better models of how solar geoengineering might work.
Equipment gondola
Recovery parachute
Balloon
Harvard researchers plan to conduct one of the first outdoor geoengineering experiments by launching a small balloon from the Arizona desert.
The balloon will release a small cloud of particles in the lower stratosphere.
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