Students Tie Camera To Balloon, Get Amazing Images From 20 Miles Up

[garybeck]

Teenagers with a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures from 20 miles above Earth.
Proving that you don't need Google's billions or the BBC weather centre's resources, the four Spanish students managed to send a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere.

Taking atmospheric readings and photographs, the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal school in Spanish Catalonia completed their incredible experiment at the end of February this year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162659/Students-tie-56-camera-balloon-send-edge-space-capture-stunning-images-Earth.html

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. Talk about getting high and seeing everything there is....

Wow. :headbang:

[Wilms]

2. Here's their flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets

[Hardrada]

3. Makes me smile. Maybe those old SF stories had it right

about amateur experimenters going into space! Great story.

[Joe the Liberal]

4. Wow...........

That's neat.

This may sound like a stupid question but how did they get the camera back to upload the pictures off it? Or did they not get the camera back?

[lib2DaBone]

5. Yes...I wonder also.. how did they get the camera back?

Fantastic pictures. Went to the Flikir page.. its in Spanish. I only speak a little Spanish.

I wonder if it took video or sequenced still shots? (The photos look like rapid fire stills)

Anyway.. very beautiful. Good on them.

[pipoman]

6. They tracked a radio signal...its all in the article..n/t