Danny Bowman

This is the #heliotrope, a solar powered hot air balloon that can deliver 2 kg to the tropopause, 800 g to the stratosphere. Fly all day, land at sunset. Got a payload? You build it, we'll fly it.

@NWSRaleigh 0.75” measured on a snow board about a mile south of UNC campus, Chapel Hill

@NWSRaleigh about 0.25” of wet sleet in south Chapel Hill s (near the intersection of 15-501 and Culbreth Rd) since precip started again. Currently sleet/snow mix.

Local wind fields and human activity have major impacts on infrasound microbarometer background noise. Congrats to the lead author A. Malach of @SandiaLabs on her first first-author paper! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Albuquerque residents, the glowing object in the sky is a NASA stratospheric balloon catching the sunlight. It’s big and it’s way up there. No cause for alarm, the aliens aren’t this obvious towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps75…

Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "The Korean infrasound catalogue (1999–2022)", Park et al. This is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/23… @OxfordJournals @RoyalAstroSoc

@ThePlanetaryGuy Rise and shine (much too bright) and smell the unexplained magnetic field

@NWSAlbuquerque there appears to be a landspout over west Rio Rancho right now. There is a long lived whirlwind under a cumulus cloud and it’s visible from across the valley.

@NWSAlbuquerque brief dime-sized hail in Corrales just now

I don’t post much here anymore but just wanted to give @northspore props for my first shiitake flush! It ain’t easy here in the high desert but looks like it can be done after all!

@NWSAlbuquerque 1.5 to 2 inches in Corrales in the valley and coming down fast!

Dusting of snow in the valley in Corrales #nmwx

Scrubbed for today

Live view of the AESOP-Lite balloon mission preparing for flight out of Antarctica. The ANIHALA infrasound piggyback is on board as well. video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-c…

🔦Shedding light on #Venus interior is key to understand its evolution. Seismic tomography is a good way to do it but it is too🔥at the surface! Can balloons🎈detect these venusquakes from the atmosphere? Check out our poster on Monday at the #AGU23 agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meeti…

So fantastic to meet so many early career Venusians! 🌊❤️🚀. Can’t wait to hear more about their research and follow their careers!

✅ All systems go! The #OSIRISREx mission team has voted to release the capsule containing an asteroid sample from the spacecraft. Here’s what we’re expecting to happen today: go.nasa.gov/3ERLjsC

A Review of Infrasound and Seismic Observations of Sample Return Capsules Since the End of the Apollo Era in Anticipation of the OSIRIS-REx Arrival mdpi.com/2492706 #mdpiatmosphere via @Atmosphere_MDPI

Taylor Swaim's @ASA_POMA paper on the development and evaluation of infrasound windscreen designs for high altitude balloons, which is ultimately aimed for flights on Venus, also came out today: doi.org/10.1121/2.0001… @okstate @OSU_Research

@NWSAlbuquerque something that looks a lot like a wall cloud over the south valley right now

#FlashFlood #Warning #ABQ Until 5:30 PM Avoid arroyos, ditches, and water, covered roads! @koat7news koat.com/weather/radar #NewMexico #NMwx #Monsoon