Dutch Schoolboy Photographs Earth from 35 Kilometres Up

摘要

A 16-year-old Dutch schoolboy, Matthijs Tissen, has succeeded in taking photos of the Earth from an altitude of 114,000 feet (35 kilometres) with a camera attached to a weather balloon. All he needed for this was a helium-filled weather balloon, a camera and GPS equipment. He fixed the camera to the weather balloon and let it fly above the Earth for two and a half hours.