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Attached to a mast after the Sunday morning’s flight, the 75-metre long rigid airship was hovering slightly in the breeze. In such an open space, it still looked huge. The Zeppelin team was busy working around the airship, and they looked tiny – like ants – compared to it. On an overcast, pleasant Sunday I could have watched the Zeppelin all day, it was such an exciting and memorable sight.

The Zeppelin is accompanied by an international team of scientists and technicians, and the objective of study is observing radicals and aerosols in the atmospheric layers as part of Pan-European Gas-Aerosol-Climate Interaction Study. The project is aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of how emissions created by humankind impact climate change.

The PEGASOS consortium consists of 26 Partners from 12 EU countries and 3 associated countries, and the duration of the project is 4 years.     go back

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Find out more:

 

 

Pegasos Home page: http://pegasos.iceht.forth.gr/​

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Read the Blog for the current EU PEGASOS Project in Finland

http://eu-pegasos.blogspot.fi/​

 

Observe the airship fly in real time with live tracking: 

http://zeppelin.iek.fz-juelich.de/zeppelinlocation/​

 

 

Read about the Airship in my blog at Dreamstime

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​See my photos of the Zeppelin at Shutterstock

​See my photos of the Zeppelin at 123rf

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15.5.2013, Source of information: http://pegasos.iceht.forth.gr/