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Students send a rubber chicken to the edge of space!
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A group of students from Bishop, California, have sent a rubber chicken to an altitude of 120,000ft as part of a project.
The journey, which involved attaching the fowl known as Camilla to a helium balloon, was undertaken to test the levels of radiation exposed to the chicken during a solar storm, last month.
Camilla is already well known among space enthusiasts as a mascot of Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and has more than 20,000 followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
On the outside of her knitted space suit, she wore a pair of badges to register radiation levels.
She flew twice - once on 3 March before the radiation storm and again on 10 March while the storm was in full swing - to give the students a basis for comparison.
The students now hope to repeat the mission with a species of microbes to find out if they can live at the edge of space.
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I know this really isn't breaking news but it's brilliant!
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A group of students from Bishop, California, have sent a rubber chicken to an altitude of 120,000ft as part of a project.
The journey, which involved attaching the fowl known as Camilla to a helium balloon, was undertaken to test the levels of radiation exposed to the chicken during a solar storm, last month.
Camilla is already well known among space enthusiasts as a mascot of Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and has more than 20,000 followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
On the outside of her knitted space suit, she wore a pair of badges to register radiation levels.
She flew twice - once on 3 March before the radiation storm and again on 10 March while the storm was in full swing - to give the students a basis for comparison.
The students now hope to repeat the mission with a species of microbes to find out if they can live at the edge of space.
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I know this really isn't breaking news but it's brilliant!
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I have always wanted to do this with a camera or something!
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sick earth looks so cool
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In the 60s it was all Apollo space missions, now they are just sending shit up there for the fun of it
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That is really cool, and it looks amazing up there.
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Was he bored?
This is actually pretty cool & interesting but weird.
This is actually pretty cool & interesting but weird.
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