Stunning photographs of Earth and space with a camera for £ 56

A team of students from Spain, using a camera worth £ 56 and a latex balloon worth £ 43, were able to make stunning photographs of Earth and space 20 miles above the Earth.

The Meteotek team (Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort) from IES La Bisbal School, which is located in Catalonia, completed its incredible experiment at the end of February of this year. The guys are 18-19 years old, and they developed the project under the guidance of a teacher (Jordi Fanals Oriol).



They independently constructed an electronic sensor, strengthened it and the camera on a balloon and sent it, one might say, to the ends of the Earth.
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Group leader Gerard (18 years old) says: “We were shocked by our results, especially with photos, sending a homemade device to the ends of the world is incredible!”
“The balloon that we chose was pumped with helium to just over two meters in diameter and weighed 1500 grams,” said Gerard. “He was able to carry a Nikon equipment sensor and a digital camera that weigh 1.5kg in total.”



The readings were read and recorded using a super-sensitive sensor from Google Earth and an onboard radio. The ball went up at a speed of 270 meters per minute.



“After we launched the ball at 9:10 am, the critical point was at an altitude of 10,000 meters. We did not know whether the balloon would overcome this altitude, since it is at this altitude that airliners make commercial flights. ”



At an altitude of about 30 km (100,000 feet), the ball began to deflate and fall.



It was not so difficult to find the sensor - it still emitted a signal, despite the fact that it was in more than extreme conditions.





The path traveled by the flying-photographing device:



This event once again shows that the enthusiasm, the brains and the hands that grow from the right place, can really work wonders.