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Jennifer Mnookin: “Columbia scientists launched a balloon over the South Pole…”

Featuring: Jennifer Mnookin, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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President Mnookin on Columbia University's Spirit of Discovery

Published | Video Starts at 01:28

Two hundred years after Washington borrowed, used, and lost that telescope, Apollo astronauts traveled to the moon carrying instruments pioneered at Columbia. A few months ago, Columbia scientists launched a balloon over the South Pole to learn more about dark matter. one of the great unresolved mysteries of our universe. And soon, a nanosatellite built by current Columbia undergraduates will be deployed into low Earth orbit from the International Space Station. (01:28–01:34)

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Asserts that Columbia scientists conducted a scientific experiment to study dark matter.

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