Helping NASA Track the Weather
U of I teams continue NASA research to track gravity waves during eclipse events
A team of ¹û¶³´«Ã½Âé¶¹Éç engineering students is helping NASA gather complex datasets scientists have been trying to capture for decades, data that can improve global weather forecast models and our understanding of the atmosphere. 
U of I is a lead university in the , and has been training four university teams in the Pacific Northwest all year long to successfully track and gather data on gravity waves using weather balloons.