Lost GoPro Found Two Years Later With Incredible Footage of the Grand Canyon from Space

Lost GoPro found with stunning space footage.

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Two years ago a group a few miles from Tuba City, Arizona, a group of Stanford students launched a GoPro camera attached to a high-altitude weather balloon into the stratosphere for their aerospace-engineering research project. They had planned to track the camera using a cell phone that was attached to the camera, but that failed because of crappy cell phone reception. That was the end of that. 

Flash forward two years later when hiker Pearl Tsosie would find the camera in the desert. Tsosie, an AT&T employee, luckily had the resources to track down the phone’s (a Samsung Galaxy Note II) owner and was able to reunite the camera with the Stanford group made up of Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Tyler Reid, and Paul Tarantino. The group would discover the breathtaking footage the GoPro captured of the Grand Canyon from space during its almost two hour flight.

The footage, edited into a video now viral with almost four million views, includes the GoPro’s launch, space footage, and its eventual landing. 

[via Daily Dot ]

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