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sinecurea 12:38 am UTC 02/09/12 |
| In reply to: | NJC: It's All Coming Back To Me Now - daveake 11:14 pm UTC 02/05/12 |
| Excellent photos! :-) Steve, Ireland. > Yesterday I launched another weather balloon payload into > "near space", and got some of my best photos yet. Click > the big pic for more. > > > title="IMG_8435 by daveake, on Flickr"> > width="1024" height="768" alt="IMG_8435"> > > The plan was for the payload to land near Haywards Heath > in Sussex, but we didn't have quite enough helium in the > cylinder meaning that the balloon got carried too far > south. It was touch and go if it would touchdown on land > on water, and in the event it splashed down nearly half a > mile out to sea! We were close behind in the chase car, > and the payload was still transmitting its location when > we got there. We thought about what to do (like, where to > find a boat) but then we could see on the live map that > the payload was slowly floating back towards land! It was > just after low tide and the wind was coming in strongly > from the see, bringing the payload directlytowards > where we were parked! So we just had to wait, and decided > to go and get some fish & chips while we did :-). > > Here's a > screenshot showing the actual path back to where it > eventually washed up nearly 2 hours after splashdown! | |
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