| September 15, 2009
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Two students from MIT have devised a hack that allowed them to take pictures of the Earth from space, using a 150 dollars worth of off-the-shelf-components.
On Sept 2nd, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh, sent their low cost picture-shooting balloon 17.5 miles high, into near-space. Using GPS to track its locations, they found the rig 5 hours later, 20 miles from the launch site.
The balloon...