Rubber chicken sent into Earth's atmosphere by schoolchildren (video)

Students from Bishop, California sent their rubber chicken 120,000 ft into the sky to test radiation from last month's solar storm, The Telegraph reports.

Using a helium balloon, the rubber fowl, named Camilla, was sent into the sky where she was exposed to high-energy solar protons.

On the outside of her knitted space suit, the chicken wore radiation badges to calculate the radiation levels she was exposed to.
She was launched into the sky twice - once on March 3 before the solar storm and again on March 10 while the storm was in full swing. This gave the students a basis for comparison.

After two and a half hours in the sky, the balloon popped, as planned, and Camilla parachuted safely back to Earth.
The Bishop Union High School students' experiment was part of their astrobiology project. Later this year they hope to launch a species of microbes to find out if they can live at the edge of space.