Project Stratos-Sphere is a photographic fine-art project created and launched in 2011 by the Belgian photographer Edouard Janssens.
The aim was to capture the curvature of our planet and the thin atmosphere we’re living in, from the best possible point of view, 33 km high, deep into the stratosphere.
Here is the project description in a nutshell :
The aim was to capture the curvature of our planet and the thin atmosphere we’re living in, from the best possible point of view, 33 km high, deep into the stratosphere.
Here is the project description in a nutshell :
- Big meteorological balloons filled with helium (with all legal and official authorizations and an insurance policy) are launched
- A capsule with cameras (photos & video) is suspended to the balloon
- The cameras are programmed to take pictures every 7 seconds, during 2.5 hours
- The balloon goes up to 33 km high, deep into the stratosphere, where it explodes after 1.5 hour
- A parachute slows the capsule down back to Earth during a 1 hour fall
- Three GSM and satellite tracking devices inside the capsule help us to recover the whole thing, 2,5 hours later, around 50 to 100 km from the launch base.