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rayofreason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 04:36 PM
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MIT Students Take Pictures from Space on $150 Budget
Two MIT students have successfully photographed the earth from space on a strikingly low budget of $148. Perhaps more significantly, they managed to accomplish this feat using components available off-the-shelf to the average layperson, opening the doors for a new generation of amateur space enthusiasts. The pair plan to launch again soon and hope that their achievements will inspire teachers and students to pursue similar endeavors.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-328198
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 04:42 PM
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1. Nice work, folks. Project Icarus linky...
Edited on Sun Sep-13-09 04:45 PM by BlooInBloo
http://space.1337arts.com/

Not sure about their choice in names, however. lol!

One of their pics:
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 04:42 PM
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2. Nice pictures, but no, they didn't take pictures from space at all. (nt)
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 04:48 PM
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3. "Outer sapce" is pretty much an arbitrary height. NASA calls it at 50 miles...
Edited on Sun Sep-13-09 04:51 PM by BlooInBloo
Others call it 100km.

The pics they got are good enough for me, though. Basically if I can't breathe and I can see the curvature of the earth, it's space as far as I'm concerned.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-13-09 05:05 PM
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4. Same here. Don't frickin' tell me "it was just the LSD"
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Veruca Salt Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 01:55 PM
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5. LOL, good one!
:)
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 06:53 PM
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6. It's still a REALLY cool project!!!
Edited on Tue Sep-15-09 06:55 PM by Rick Myers
As a high-power rocketry fan, I know it would take about $70,000 or so to do this with a rocket...

Sorry, I meant about $7000... Can't see the screen due to eye injury...
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