Can you believe that this photo was taken by a man who attached a digital camera to a balloon?
Yes, its true!!!
Yes, its true!!!
There’s actually not too much involved here. You take a helium-filled, high-altitude balloon, strap a digital photo to it, and off you go. The camera goes up (that’s 22 miles above the surface of the planet), takes a photo every five minutes, then it comes floating down to Earth on a parachute. A simple GPS, not too different from the one in your car right now, gives the location of the camera when it comes back down.
It’s the space-photography equivalent of macaroni glued to construction paper.
Total cost? Around $750. Much less than the hourly pay of a NASA scientist. Clearly Robert Harrison, the UK chap who put all of this together, is cooler than we’ll ever be.
References:
Crunchgear
Buzzfeed
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