Skyehaven's Cool Thing of the Day » amateur astronomy http://www.skyehaven.net/blog Just a little something that might help to satisfy a 'satiable curiosity. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:13:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Right up my alley http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/2009/03/19/right-up-my-alley/ http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/2009/03/19/right-up-my-alley/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:14:58 +0000 Skyehaven http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/?p=193 Why didn’t I think of that?

Proving that you don’t need Google’s billions or the BBC weather centre’s resources, the four Spanish students managed to send a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere.

Taking atmospheric readings and photographs 20 miles above the ground, the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia completed their incredible experiment at the end of February this year.

[...]

Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said: “We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible.”

Share

]]> http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/2009/03/19/right-up-my-alley/feed/ 0