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Sunrise Project
EOL is working in conjunction with ESSL's High Altitude Observatory (HAO) to create the gondola for a lightweight, balloon-borne one-meter solar telescope that will circle Antarctica for about two weeks at an altitude of approximately 25 miles. Its advanced instrumentation will provide high-resolution images of the Sun's outer surface, or photosphere, enabling scientists to get unprecedented views of small-scale magnetic fields that drive solar variability and profoundly affect Earth's atmosphere.
