{"id":773228,"date":"2023-11-14T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773228"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:32:12","slug":"going-for-the-gusto-in-antarctica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773228","title":{"rendered":"Going for the GUSTO in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1129\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/53296469002-a92ea42cb9-o-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Tractors and other heavy machinery rest on the snowy plain in the foreground. In the middle of the image, a dark gray aircraft sits on the ground as a smaller white aircraft, NASA's C-130, lands.\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA \/ Scott Battaion<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft, shown in this image from Oct. 28, 2023, delivered the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-selects-mission-to-study-churning-chaos-in-our-milky-way-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Galactic\/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO)<\/a> payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/wallops\/nasa-c-130-makes-first-ever-flight-to-antarctica-for-gusto-balloon-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first mission to Antarctica for the plane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GUSTO mission, launching aboard a football-stadium-sized, zero-pressure scientific balloon\u00a0in December 2023, will fly an Ultralong-Duration Balloon (ULDB) carrying a telescope with carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen emission line detectors. This unique combination of data will supply the spectral and spatial resolution information needed for the mission team to untangle the complexities of the cosmic material found between stars, and map out large sections of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/albums\/72177720312323293\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos from the C-130\u2019s voyage to Antarctica.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Scott Battaion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/going-for-the-gusto-in-antarctica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Going for the GUSTO in Antarctica<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Breaking News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA \/ Scott Battaion NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft, shown in this image from Oct. 28, 2023, delivered the agency\u2019s Galactic\/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}