Up, up and away: Camera captures Newfoundland from stratosphere
Weather balloon equipped with camera makes remarkable trip
John Hennessey and Erica Styles sent a hydrogen-filled weather balloon equipped with a camera soaring above the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador earlier this month, and what it captured is quite remarkable.
The pair attached a GoPro camera and two global-positioning systems to the device before sending it up in the air above Black Duck Siding.
Hennessey said he and Styles have done several launches in the past, but they never saw anything like they did on Nov. 9.
"This particular launch went further than launches I've done in the past. I think it went 225 kilometres," Hennessey said. "Significantly further than what it's gone in the past. I think the farthest that I ever got it to go was 187 kilometres."
"You can see the blackness of space and the curvature of earth," Hennessey explained.
The trip was 2 hours and 12 minutes in total, but the balloon exploded after reaching 33 kilometres from earth.