According to Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log on msnbc.com, a Brooklyn cinematographer and his 7-year-old son successfully launched an HD video camera and iPhone in a weather balloon up 100,000 feet, capturing the curving earth and the atmospheric glow of the sky.
While Luke Geissbuhler and his son Max are following a tech-savvy amateur trend started a year ago, their experiment used the iPhone’s GPS capability to track their fallen balloon, which burst after 70 minutes. They found it, and their images, 30 miles from the launch point of Newburgh, NY.
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