Project Icarus: $148 for Photos from Space
The picture above shows the curvature of the earth taken from about 93,000 ft (or 18 miles) from the earth’s surface. This stunning picture was not the product of the latest space launch. It was taken with a Canon A470 camera from a weather balloon launched by two MIT students. The total cost of their setup was $148, a bit of a savings over NASA’s projects. The effort was christened Project Icarus, and full instructions for duplicating these spectacular results will soon be posted on the Project Icarus website.