Scientists have recovered an advanced solar telescope that has been sitting out in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica for a year. In January 2016, the NASA-funded Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) telescope landed in the ice after completing an unmanned high-altitude balloon mission, where it sat until last month awaiting recovery. GRIPS was designed and built by the University of California, Berkeley's Space Science Laboratory to study high-energy particles generated by solar flares.
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