NASA is about to launch a flock of giant balloons from Antarctica to the edge of space – for science, of course.

On December 1, as part of NASA’s annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign, teams of NASA scientists and engineers at McMurdo Station will launch three giant, helium-filled balloons into the Earth’s upper stratosphere. Instruments aboard the balloons’ gondolas will map the center of our galaxy and the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, study cosmic rays, and eavesdrop on the natural sounds of the stratosphere. Although far away from the space agency’s North American stomping grounds, NASA chose this snowy home base thanks to its near-constant sunlight and uninterrupted airspace.

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