The mission was to attach a HD video camera to a weather balloon and send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the blackness beyond our earth.

这项任务是把一个HD高清摄像机系在一个太空探测气象气球上，放飞到同温层上面，拍摄地球外面的黑暗。

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The balloon soared into the stratosphere and eventually burst.

这个气球飞入平流层，并最终炸开。

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What Is the "Stratosphere" Balloon?

什么是“平流层”气球？

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Hurtling towards the stratosphere the balloon was fitted with weather instruments designed to measure, among other things, temperature, pressure and wind speed.

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His grandfather Auguste, also an engineer, was the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere.

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For the first time in over four decades, NASA is planning to use the edge of our own stratosphere to initiate what it hopes will be a new balloon-based planetary science program.

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