Picture of the day

Turns out if you want to get high tech space photos and topographic mapping detail you don't need a satellite, Hubble, or an astronaut with a polaroid camera, you just need to be a Spanish teen with a balloon and no qualms about tying mom's Nikon to it. The students managed to send a latex balloon, sensors that ran data into Google Earth, and a camera 20 miles up into the stratosphere and photograph the earth.

Full documentation of the project on their Flickr page. Eat it, NASA.