AirCore in packaging

Researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute’s Arctic Space Centre launched a big white balloon from Lapland to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere as part of ESA’s preparatory work for the new Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring satellite mission. Attached to the hydrogen-filled white balloon was a box that held an important instrument called AirCore.

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