Mission Control: Washington University in St. Louis

These maps give you more information about Solo Spirit's current position and surrounding conditions. They can help you put the Solo Spirit's flight into a larger context.

If you would like to plot the Solo Spirit track on your own map, click here to download a text file containing the complete path of Solo Spirit. This file is updated whenever a position is received at Mission Control. It includes UTC time, balloon time, latitude, longitude, altitude, ground speed, and heading.

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Current Balloon Locations and Time:

LATITUDE: 31° 23.47' S
LONGITUDE: 54° 4.93' W
HEADING: 0°
BALLOON DATE: 2001-08-17T12:03:09 UTC

Living Earth The Living Earth® image is a highly accurate composite of multiple high-resolution satellite images that has been color-enhanced to appear natural to the human eye.
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Topography This topography map is a shaded relief map with color coded elevations. In addition to showing land areas, it also contains elevations for the sea floor.
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Infrared This infrared cloud map is a composite of GOES, Meteosat, and GMS weather satellite images. Warm areas appear dark and cool areas, such as clouds, appear light.
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Composite Weather This map combines weather data into a single composite weather image.
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Clouds Composite image of cloud cover.
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The last update from Solo Spirit was received at
2001-08-17T12:03:09 UTC.

Thanks to Fourmilab for the satellite photos.