Some students at MIT decided to send a camera and GPS enabled phone up (17.6 miles in fact) in a helium balloon. They expected it to last for five hours and to get some pictures. They lost contact with it. The whole thing cost $150. They got most of their stuff back. It was 25 miles away...
The video is set at 5 second time lapse shots. My favourite is upon the descent in the last 30 seconds or less where you see the remnants of the balloon and the field.
Here.
P.S. Sorry about the Nimble joke...
No comments:
Post a Comment