It’s amazing what you can do with a latex weather balloon, helium, and a Nikon camera. In fact, what four teenage spanish students were able to do is take photos of the Earth from its stratosphere.

At its greatest height, the teens from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia had their balloon reach 20 miles above the ground. With some accurate measurements for their experiment, and a little luck the group of students were able to take pictures that have many in the astronomy field a buzzing.

The students were able to track their experiment using Google Earth. At around 100,000 feet the balloon began deflating and the students travelled 10km to retrieve their experiment. Luckily, everything needed to view their results was intact.

Quite an amazing story indeed.

This is a pretty cool video showing off what technologies we could see in a decade. I think it’s a bit more advanced then what we’ll actually see. Atleast everything is going to be based on touch.