JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The University of North Florida has again been chosen to help NASA track a full solar eclipse. A group of students led by Dr. Nirmal Patel & Dr. Hemani Kaushal headed to Spain on Saturday and will launch a high-altitude balloon during the Wednesday eclipse. <\/p>\n
The balloon will fly as high as 10-12 miles or more and will measure changes in atmospheric conditions, including temperature, humidity, pressure, dew point and ozone concentration. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The instruments will also gather data on energetic particles, radiation levels, radio communications and capture images of the moon\u2019s shadow moving across Earth during totality.<\/p>\n UNF has developed a strong data collection relationship with NASA. Dr. Patel\u2019s ozone sensor payload has been selected and launched by the NASA-High Altitude Student Payload project every year since 2008. <\/p>\n Kaushal has also developed a long-range communication system (LoRa) that will be launched by NASA this September along with a second UNF payload named the Osprey Ozone Sensor.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n NASA selected and funded the UNF team as one of only three universities to participate in the international eclipse mission. <\/p>\n Chief Meteorologist Mike Buresh visited the group of scientists just a few days before they flew to Europe. This eclipse will not be visible from any of the United States.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The University of North Florida has again been chosen to help NASA track a full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12388,2006,79253,149442,116,118,117,634,11969,92268,13318,9939,12913],"class_list":["post-369080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-australia","tag-doctor","tag-eclipse","tag-instant_360","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local","tag-nasa","tag-patel","tag-spain","tag-unf","tag-university_of_north_florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}