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Shooting this balloon down over water was the right decision
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Search crews found "significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified", said US Northern Command.
The FBI is examining the items, which the US says were used to spy on sensitive military sites.
The US has shot down three more objects since the first one on 4 February.
"Large sections of the structure" were also recovered on Monday off the coast of South Carolina, military officials say.
About 30-40ft (9-12m) of the balloon's antenna array are among the items found, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
US officials said the high-altitude balloon originated in China and was used for surveillance, but China said it was merely a weather-monitoring airship that had blown astray.
Captain Zero
(7,416 posts)Upside one of their navy ships.
yonder
(9,992 posts)COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)Its probably the propulsion/steering mechanism.
Irish_Dem
(55,825 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,783 posts)and suck their bad air over here.
(I excerpted that from Herschel Walker's dissertation on Climatology, which, in partnership with "George Santos", earned both of them Doctorates and a shared Noble Prize.)
NBachers
(18,011 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,240 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,619 posts)Lower tropospheric balloons catching the next disruption of the breezes...hmmmm...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/09/polar-vortex-sudden-stratospheric-warming/
"Models are generally calling for the sudden stratospheric warming to occur around Feb. 15-17, Lee said. Butler noted thats within the 10-day time frame in which these events can be skillfully predicted, but she cautioned there is still considerable uncertainty in how things will evolve.
Techy science from NH going to Everest. Interesting read though I'm no engineer, some simple descriptions of the customized parts...LOL - build a CT, anybody?
https://www.mountwashington.org/about-us/frontier-science.aspx
Then: remember this record extreme cold earlier this year: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/mount-washington-researcher-details-extreme-wind-cold/