Two students from a small school called M.I.T. got their best MacGyver on when they spent $150 and using a Canon A470 created a device that could travel into space and take the picture of the earth’s curvature above. According to CNET:
The balloon was launched from Sturbridge, Mass., on September 2, 2009. The University of Wisconsin maintains a balloon trajectory Web site that they used to try to determine where it might land. A GPS-enabled prepaid cell phone was placed in the cooler to let them track its return to Earth and to locate it after landing, a fairly low-tech but creative and effective navigation system.
The camera and balloon made it to 93,000 feet, high enough to see the curvature of the Earth. So high, that the cooler took 40 minutes to return to earth. It is around this altitude that a balloon will pop, allowing the rig to fall back to earth…[the camera was set to] shoot a photo every five seconds…
Yeah…..like we said, hopefully you guys get paid and are LIFERS!
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lol a small school called M.I.T.
Thats cool tho!
the products of a DAMN good education!
thats right boys!