BISHOP, Calif. — A NASA video chronicles the flight of a rubber chicken during a sun storm in March, a student experiment to observe the radiation from the strongest solar tempest in nearly a decade.
Members of the Earth to Sky student group at Bishop Union High School in Bishop, Calif., sent the rubber chicken named Camilla to an altitude of 120,000 feet (about 36,500 meters) aboard a helium balloon, exposing the rubber fowl to high-energy solar protons from the unusually powerful sun storm.
"We equipped Camilla with sensors to measure the radiation," Sam Johnson, a 16-year. . .
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