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It was no Hubble at all: The stunning images from space taken by two students on a £350 budget
You could be forgiven for thinking these amazing shots of the curvature of the earth were produced by a hi-tech Nasa telescope or an expensive special effects company. But they were actually produced by a £45 High Definition camera stuck into a styrofoam box with gaffa tape and floated 23 miles into the atmosphere on a helium balloon. PHD students Alex Baker and Chris Rose drove 100 miles from Ashbourne in Derbyshire to recover the images after their rudimentary craft splashed down in a field in Cambridgeshire. Baker, 26, and Rose, 25, spent two months planning their experiment and building their space exploration vessel after hitting on the idea last October. The close friends, both students in mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield, wanted to complete their mini-space exploration as cheaply as possible to inspire others to follow suit. They home-made kit was capable of recording images from over 100,000 feet in the sky by inserting the HD video camera into a styrofoam box along with a GPS device so they could find their equipment once it had landed. Click here to read more...
You could be forgiven for thinking these amazing shots of the curvature of the earth were produced by a hi-tech Nasa telescope or an expensive special effects company. But they were actually produced by a £45 High Definition camera stuck into a styrofoam box with gaffa tape and floated 23 miles into the atmosphere on a helium balloon. PHD students Alex Baker and Chris Rose drove 100 miles from Ashbourne in Derbyshire to recover the images after their rudimentary craft splashed down in a field in Cambridgeshire. Baker, 26, and Rose, 25, spent two months planning their experiment and building their space exploration vessel after hitting on the idea last October. The close friends, both students in mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield, wanted to complete their mini-space exploration as cheaply as possible to inspire others to follow suit. They home-made kit was capable of recording images from over 100,000 feet in the sky by inserting the HD video camera into a styrofoam box along with a GPS device so they could find their equipment once it had landed. Click here to read more...
