Students Send Homemade Weather Balloon To Space And Capture Footage To Prove It
Many people dream of going to Space, but unfortunately very few will ever get the chance. In 2013, a group of students did the next best thing. They spent months designing a weather balloon powerful enough to float into the outer edges of the atmosphere. When they were ready for launch they headed to the Grand Canyon, attached a camera and hoped for the best.
Remarkably the camera was discovered two years later when a woman found it while on a hike. The footage was put on YouTube soon after and the story has made waves among space and photography enthusiasts
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3. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago
By most definitions space starts at three times that height. The fisheye makes the earth look really round and the visual thinning of the atmosphere is a cool looking effect. NASA was just short a few hundred meters of this height with its propeller driven solar-electric aircraft Helios HP01.
Great project never the less!
Great project never the less!
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4. cameramaster commented 9 years ago
#2. Apparently they lost contact with the GPS on the mobile phone they had installed to track it...the signal wasn't what had been forecast in the area by AT&T. It was found ( as stated) by a woman two years later...who was a AT&T employee! Apparently she took the unit home and managed to contact them using the SIM card information...it was of course an AT&T SIM card.
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5. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
That's the kind of stuff you did in school you will never forget.
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6. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
#5 Well if I did that kind of stuff in school I've definitely forgotten. All I remember is a awful of fecking Log tables which along with the French and German have proved to be worth their weight in shite.
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7. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
#6..yes, I remember Log tables..or how about thousands of irregular verbs to memorize in whatever foreign language you had to take...
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9. DryBarber commented 9 years ago
great music.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRKRSCBJu0
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10. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
Agree #9...
+7 1. dopkop commented 9 years ago