Piezoelectric lighter hovering above South Pole may help pinpoint mystery source of cosmic energy

On: December 21, 2017

Soaring some 23 miles over the South Pole, a University of Kansas experiment slung from a high-altitude weather balloon is calculating how the surface of Antarctica reflects radio signals caused by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

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