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"Rescuing Dark Matter Data: Balloon-Borne Telescope's Hard Landing Yields Valuable Insights"

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Space.com

A NASA telescope called SuperBIT, which launched on a balloon earlier this year, lost communication and suffered damage upon landing in Argentina. However, the 200 gigabytes of data it had collected, including stunning images of galaxy clusters, were safely copied to SD drives and parachuted to the ground. The telescope's main goal was to map dark matter around galaxy clusters by measuring how celestial objects warp space and time. The successful recovery of the data demonstrates that valuable science data can be salvaged even in worst-case scenarios.

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Giant Balloon Telescope Captures Stunning Images with Help from Scientists.

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Daily Mail

British scientists have launched a £4.1 million balloon-borne telescope, SuperBIT, from New Zealand to investigate the mystery of dark matter. The telescope has already captured mesmerizing images of the Antennae Galaxies and the Tarantula Nebula. SuperBIT aims to measure the properties of dark matter and map out the matter around galaxy clusters by measuring the way it warps the space around them. The telescope has a wider field of view than Hubble and costs 1,000 times less than an equivalent satellite.

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