{"id":15,"date":"2012-05-05T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epo.sonoma.edu\/s4\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-07-18T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T21:23:35","slug":"balloon-fest-may-5th-2012-payload-balloon-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Fest, May 5th, 2012 Payload Balloon Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Balloon Fest brings secondary school students together to launch their payloads on tethered balloons with a maximum altitude of 1000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2012 Balloon Fest, Logan Hill and student Kevin Zack tested the barometric pressure and GPS payload.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BalloonLaunch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\" wp-image-17 \" alt=\"The balloon payload; on its way up to 1000 feet to test the barometric pressure and temperature sensors.\" src=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BalloonLaunch.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The balloon payload; on its way up to 1000 feet to test the barometric pressure and temperature sensors.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\" wp-image-18 \" alt=\" BalloonLaunch2 Helium filled weather balloons all with scientific payloads in their gondolas. \" src=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BalloonLaunch2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BalloonLaunch2<br \/>Helium filled weather balloons all with scientific payloads in their gondolas.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BalloonPayload2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\" wp-image-19 \" alt=\"Payload installed into the balloon gondola. The payload has a GPS, Temperature, and a Barometric sensor. The data is stored on an SD card.\" src=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BalloonPayload2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Payload installed into the balloon gondola. The payload has a GPS, Temperature, and a Barometric sensor. The data is stored on an SD card.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GoogleEarthLaunch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\" wp-image-21 \" alt=\" Path The GPS data from the balloon launch in Google Earth.\" src=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GoogleEarthLaunch1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Path<br \/>The GPS data from the balloon launch in Google Earth.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GPSvsBarometric.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22\" alt=\"GPS altitude vs. Barometric altitude.\" src=\"http:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GPSvsBarometric-300x175.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GPSvsBarometric-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GPSvsBarometric.png 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GPS altitude vs. Barometric altitude.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Balloon Fest brings secondary school students together to launch their payloads on tethered balloons with a maximum altitude of 1000 feet. At the 2012 Balloon Fest, Logan Hill and student Kevin Zack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/?p=15\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s4.sonoma.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}