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Who needs a Space Shuttle? Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his compact camera
By TOM KELLY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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The unearthly beauty of this image taken high above the planet would make Nasa proud.
But it didn't need millions of pounds of technology to capture.
Just a little British ingenuity that saw a standard digital camera taped to a helium balloon and floated into the sky.
Stratospheric: Robert Harrison captured images of the Earth like this one using a Canon Sure Shot camera fixed in a polystyrene box and attached to a helium balloon
Achievement: Mr Harrison guided the balloon to a height of 22 miles above the Earth's surface and was able to recover the camera as it parachuted back down to earth using a sat-nav device
Ingenious: Robert Harrison with his creation, a camera enclosed in a polystyrene box. He then used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress
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