(우주) 지구 촬영 기법
(우주) 지구 촬영 기법
And eye in the sky. Who needs NASA when a guy in Great Britain gets these pictures from a balloon, a camera and duck tape? Finally tonight, the first time science and technology combined to put a rocket into space and send back pictures of our planet. It was unbelievable. We’ve never seen ourselves quite that way and we’ve always assumed it takes a space program to get a picture like that, but it doesn’t. There’s a guy, just a guy in Great Britain who has managed pretty simply to do the same thing and it’s our favorite story of the day. His story tonight from NBC’s Mike Taibbi.
38-year-old Robert Harrison is a self-confessed computer geek기괴한 짓을 하는 흥행사 who says it was boredom지루한 일 that got him thinking a while back about space exploration, photo exploration, that is. “We have a camera. Simple points and click camera.” That’s about 100 bucks and about 600 more for a GPS tracking device, duck tape to hold it all together. plus a standard weather balloon and the helium to fill up. Then up, up, up into way above the English countryside while the camera clicked away automatically
At 22 miles high, the stratosphere성층권 at the edge of space, the balloon burst as expected with that cheap camera capturing images like these, a parachute carried it safely back to earth where Harrison used a GPS signal to find it. Harrison may have been the first hobbyist to try weather balloon photography from near space, but now there are several enthusiasts going for the same cheap thrill, cheap as an inexpensive, but useful.
Pictures like these have often been taken aboard the space shuttle. Each mission costing NASA about $400 million. So getting images like these for a few hundred dollars is an eye opener. “If the government needed to do it, they can get tips from backyard entrepreneurs on how to do it more cheaply.” A team at MIT has gotten its own balloon camera aloft and for only 150 bucks. A bargain basement way to see the truth revealed to real space travelers,with your own photographs as proof. Mike Taibbi, NBC News, New York. Outstanding.