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Related: About this forumLost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Astounding Shots of Earth from Space
This is from a couple years ago:Back in June 2013, five friends in Arizona decided to capture some footage of space by sending a GoPro, camcorder, and phone up in a weather balloon. The teamconsisting of college students Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and Tyler Reidbuilt their device, calculated its trajectory, registered with the FAA to avoid interfering with passing aircrafts, and finally launched the balloon in the desert a few miles outside of Tuba City. The friends planned to track the balloon's progress using GPS on the attached smartphone, but they soon lost contact with the locator after the device floated out of cell phone tower range.
For months, the group wondered if they would ever get their balloon and cameras back. In reality, it would take two whole years for them to see the results of their project again. This summer, they received a call from an unknown numbera hiker in Arizona had found a strange box with their names on it 50 miles away from their original launch point. Reunited with their equipment, the team could finally see the extraordinary video and photos that the cameras had takenincluding a gorgeous money shot of the Grand Canyon captured from the stratosphere (above). The group of friends also had a chance to parse the data from their device, and they learned that the balloon had reached an altitude of 98,664 feet, with a total flight time of 1 hour and 38 minutes.
http://mymodernmet.com/lost-weather-balloon-captures-grand-canyon-shot/
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Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Astounding Shots of Earth from Space (Original Post)
Mosby
Apr 2017
OP
that's amazing, and a good reminder how thin and fragile our atmosphere is
Fast Walker 52
Apr 2017
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)1. What a beautiful planet we have.
I wish the Trumps, Putins and Jong Ils could understand just how fragile it is.
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)2. Beautiful!
murielm99
(30,730 posts)3. This is fascinating.
Thank you.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)4. that's amazing, and a good reminder how thin and fragile our atmosphere is
byronius
(7,392 posts)5. Just reading New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson --
And one of the characters remarks that if our atmosphere were compressed to the density of water, it would be thirty feet thick.
byronius
(7,392 posts)6. Best kind of scientists.
2naSalit
(86,508 posts)7. Bookmarked! Thanks!
ffr
(22,665 posts)8. Cool music video too! Enjoyed that very much. Marvelled at the view from 90K
That rocked. Thanks for sharing!
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)9. Awesome.
Well made video too.
Thanx for posting.
Kali
(55,007 posts)10. wow that is so cool.
heh, I was up in that area last month.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)11. Very cool!