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Channel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) · 2009 · Science & Technology

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Video: Melanie Gonick; additional images: Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh.

Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.

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