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Teens send balloon with Nikon Coolpix L10 into space, upload photos to Flickr

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Imaging | by Samuel Axon | Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:09PM | 1 comment

Four Spanish secondary school students tied a Nikon Coolpix L10 digital camera (which cost less than $100) to a $60 balloon made of latex and, thanks to careful planning, managed to send them both 20 miles above the surface of the earth. It was there at the brink of outer space that the camera snapped several photos before descending safely back to Earth. Thanks to a radio signal and Google Earth, the students were able to locate the balloon after it had landed and retrieve the photos.

You can see the photos now on their Flickr page, and they're magnificent. There are also pictures of the construction of their rig, as well as data they collected and details about the project.

Are you a university recruiter? If so, we think you should consider shooting these guys an e-mail!

[Image courtesy of meteotek08 on Flickr. Used via Creative Commons.]

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Menexis Account external link (10:43 PM on Sun Mar 29, 2009)

WOW, this is a really awesome image

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