A weather balloon, a Nikon Coolpix and 22 vertical miles later.

by Earl on August 26, 2007

in Observations

There are some things that bring out the exploration-al kid in me.

That was the case when I saw the photos, and read the story, of the group from Alberta, Canada that launched a weather balloon carrying a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera taking one photo each minute, to an altitude of 22 miles.

The last photo before the balloon burst is the the one below…simply amazing.

200708261646

Great job guys!

You can see many other photo’s at their site, SABLE via Neatorama.

Technorati Tags: , ,

{ 1 trackback }

Nikon Coolpix P2
March 11, 2009 at 6:00 am

{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }

1 Swiss James December 5, 2008 at 12:22 am

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>