Mission emblem design for PUEO
After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky.
Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, scanning the continent of Antarctica from its 120,000-foot vantage point for miniscule visitors from outer space known as neutrinos.
The mission, known as Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, or PUEO, came back to Earth on Jan. 12, when it landed a few hundred miles from the South Pole.
The goal for this project was to create a unique emblem/badge for this mission similar in form to the many NASA mission patches that have preceded it. The main challenge for this was to showcase both the entire payload unit while also representing the science and goals of the mission to capture the essence of what PUEO is.
