17
Sep 2009

Low-budget space exploration

Two MIT students spend $150 on a weather balloon, a digital camera, and a GPS-equipped cellphone. It flies up to 93,000 feet and takes pictures:

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This is the era of $150 do-it-yourself NASA projects. How flipping cool is that? link

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