Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later With Incredible Video of Earth from Space

Five friends in Arizona planned to send aGoPro, a camcorder, and a phone up in a weather balloon to record some footageof space. Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and TylerReid, all college students, built their gadget, calculated its trajectory,registered with the FAA to avoid interfering with pᴀssing planes, and thenlaunched the balloon in the desert a few miles outside of Tuba City.

Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Incredible Footage of Earth from Space

They intended to use GPS on the attached smartphone totrack the balloon’s movement, but as the device floated out of the cell phonetower range, they lost communication with the locator.

Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Incredible Footage of Earth from Space


The group had been wondering for months if they would everget their balloon and cameras back. In actuality, they would have to wait twoyears to realize the benefits of their project. They got a call from an unknownnumber after 2 years, saying that a hiker in Arizona had discovered a bizarrebox with their names on it 50 miles from their original launch place.

Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Incredible Footage of Earth from Space

When the team was reunited with their gear, they were ableto witness the incredible video and pH๏τographs that the cameras hadproduced–including a stunning “money sH๏τ” of the Grand Canyon captured fromthe stratosphere (above).

Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Incredible Footage of Earth from Space

The group of friends also had the opportunity to analysethe data from their equipment, discovering that the balloon had reached aheight of 98,664 feet and had flown for 1 hour and 38 minutes.

Lost Weather Balloon GoPro Found Two Years Later with Incredible Footage of Earth from Space

You can watch the recorded video below.

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