Simple Way to Take Pictures From The Edge of Space

If you are really addicted of taking images of Earth from the near edge of space, well no problem it’s simple!. MIT students recently invented a way of taking photo’s of earth in a very low cost i.e for $150.  MIT students designed a low-budget balloon that did not require the use of expensive equipment such as radio modems or complicated hardware. The main hardware which they used were a Motorola i290 phone with GPS, a cell phone charger and disposable hand warmers to keep everything operable at the cold high altitudes, along with them they also used daily used things like Styrofoam, newspaper, duct tape and zip ties.

AA batteries were used for keeping the mobile phone charged during the entire flight time, a digital camera Canon A470 took pictures every 5 seconds at 1/800 second shutter speed, and permitted the students to capture the balloon’s entire journey from launch to retrieval. Finally the balloon reached a height of 17.5 miles at the uppermost part of the stratosphere and then poped up and returned to Earth via parachute 20 miles away from the launch site.

In the end it was concluded that it is not necessary to have high sophisticated hardware to capture such footage but can be achieved by daily use items.

List of Equipment is mention.

Courtesy: Popular Science.

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