It took five friends a couple months of planning to record the perfect GoPro shot. And it took them two years to get the footage back.

In June 2013, a group of friends launched a weather balloon with a GoPro camera attached in the US state of Arizona. The expedition was designed to capture breathtaking aerial views of the Grand Canyon and its surrounding areas. However not everything went according to plan as their tracking technology failed and they ended up losing the camera.

But two years on, the footage was found by an Arizona hiker and has since been posted to YouTube.

https://youtu.be/EABQ5psUz70

when the camera is up at 17 kms the horizon goes flat then curved… camera refresh rate or something else? Great footage at the end when the balloon bursts… anyway enjoy!

curvature of the lens. spherical aberration.

ChrispenEvan said:

curvature of the lens. spherical aberration.

as I suspected

very cool footage though..

Arts said:

very cool footage though..

It is. They could have included the footage of the hiker finding the cam though ;)

http://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/News.html?NewSite=1&ItemID=711&count=1

> two years on, the footage was found by an Arizona hiker

One of the lessons I learnt from rocketry is that very little is ever permanently lost. It’s lost at the time, but some passerby will almost certainly find it in a few years.

that’s why you paint it mottled grey/ black or a suitable colour