Kelly and I have been working since summer on a balloon mission to near space. I am now (finally) making a blog because of the large number of people that have been asking me if our project has one. The goal of the project is to send a helium balloon to ~20km and take pictures and maintain communications with the ground throughout the flight. I'll post more details about the electronics and software later, and Kelly will post more about the mechanical stuff. Right now we are hoping to launch some time either over this break, or if there is not suitable weather, over a not busy weekend next quarter. The above pictures are the first ones taken with the camera that will go on the balloon. They were taken at 1/4 max resolution and there is clearly a problem with how we are reading the data from the camera, as can be seen in the weird stripes going across the image..
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