Dispatches from Antarctica: Concordiasi Stratospheric Balloon Project

This video was originally shared on the Dispatches from Antarctica series: http://go.usa.gov/g5G.

Philippe Cocquerez, of the French Space Agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), leads an international long-duration balloon project known as Concordiasi. Among other stated objectives, Concordiasi hopes to refine and improve satellite-based models of the conditions required to create polar stratospheric clouds (PSC). Formation of PSC is associated with atmospheric loss of ozone and widening of the so-called ozone hole.

The video offers words from the project leader, and at 2:45, a front row look at the launch of the Concordiasi balloon.

"The campaign was a highly successful example of French-American cooperation," Cocquerez said.

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