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Students Take Space Photos with Just a Nikon digital camera

Posted in amazing stories, international, international news, research study, science with tags , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2009 by nunetherlands

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The four Spanish teenagers, working with their teacher Jordi Fanals Oriol as the Meteotek team at the IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia, started with a fairly lofty goal: They wanted to launch a balloon with a digital camera and some custom-built electronic sensors to 30,000 feet.

Full Story at Switched

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