Recovery of GRIPS Payload (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Recovery of GRIPS Payload

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The GRIPS telescope parachuted to the ground and sat on the ice for an entire year. Scientists had to dig out snow to recover the GRIPS instruments, but not much snow made it into the electronics themselves.

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Hazel Bain, University of California, Berkeley

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