Super-TIGER lying low for the Southern Hemisphere winter
Late Friday, Feb. 2, an overcast day in St. Louis, the
twitter feed for the Super-TIGER cosmic ray experiment burst into life,
as the Super-TIGER team received word that NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon
Facility, which provides operations support for scientific ballooning in
Antarctica, had decided to terminate the flight of the balloon carrying
their detector aloft in the polar vortex.