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Up Up and Away

In my Beautiful Weather Balloon

The idea seems simple enough. Attach an inexpensive camera to a weather balloon. Set the camera to take timed automatic exposures. Launch the weather balloon, which should rise until it bursts. Recover the camera when it parachutes back to Earth ( may want to add locator to the package).


So why hasn't it been done before getting the balloon ready

The camera in an insulated box to insulate against cold temperatures the camera package

Launch day - a fun family day for all balloon launch day

A photo from above showing a patchwork of land plots images from above

The curvature of the Earth starts to become clear images from a little higher up

Above the clouds and the skies are looking black photos from way high up

The atmosphere is just a blue haze now photos from the edge of space

At this height water boils at room temperature showing the curvature of the Earth

This is as high as the package will go, and the balloon bursts in the vacuum photo from maximum height

A full recovery is made, and the images are processed a safe return and recovery





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