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Space on a shoestring budget

NASA spends millions of dollars to capture images from Space but, Oliver Yeh, a student of Massachusetts Institute of Technology has achieved stunning results by spending only $150. He has used easily available equipments and named it the Project Icarus. He purchased the camera from eBay and placed it inside a cool-box that could withstand temperatures upto minus 40 degrees Celsius at a height of 17.6 kilometers from the Earth’s surface. He made provisions for the camera to take images and a computer program so that the camera snapped these images every five seconds. Then he added a mobile phone with GPS capabilities to locate he equipment when it returns to the Earth. He sent it into the atmosphere by using Helium filled balloon and retrieved it from about 25 kilometers away from MIT. Oliver has collated the images and posted them on his website.

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Submitted By: prabirghose | 2 months ago

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