Video: Watching the Northern Lights from Above Earth

Wired News Friday 27th April, 2012

GoPro HD cameras to the high-altitude balloon rigs, and released them into the sky during the aurora. The results can be seen in the time-lapse video attached to this post. A second camera is in shot because the team needed one to capture the images and a second to flash and project light onto the first camera to make it possible to get the exposure right. Once the balloons got so high that the pressure popped them, they parachuted back to Earth,...

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