PICS: Earth Day celebrated with science-filled balloons in Saldanha Bay

Dr Willem Jordaan from Stellenbosch university, Sam Jeffery and Andries Burger joined a hundred young South African science enthusiasts from various schools around Cape Town in celebrating Earth Day with ExoLab by launching a high-altitude probe balloon from Saldanha Airport. Picture: Armand Hough/African News Agency (ANA)
PICS: Earth Day celebrated with science-filled balloons in Saldanha Bay
By Nomalanga Tshuma
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Cape Town - Through its innovative global ExoLab programme, more than 100 learners from Cape Town schools participated in a special Earth Day celebration at the Saldanha Airfield in Saldanha Bay.
The organisers of the event treated the learners to the launch of two InterMet super pressure high-altitude balloon payloads.

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