Bryan Chan from Stanford University and his four friends launched a space balloon from Arizona, USA. The idea was to collect some data and video footage for their thesis. To achieve this, GoPro and a smartphone with GPS capabilities.

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The balloon blows up once it reached around 100,000 feet. The plan was for the destroyed balloon to land in an area where there is a cell coverage. However, because the cell service coverage map they had was inaccurate, so they didn't get anything from the phone. They've lost the remains of the space balloon.

2 years later...

Bryan and his team thought they won't see their unit again, but fate has it that they were to reunite.

A woman who works at a cell phone company had found this phone while she was on a hike. She took the phone back and checked the SIM card to figure out who that phone belongs to. Bryan then exported the data and found this:

The video shows the highlights of the entire trip of the balloon. The pictures taken as it goes higher and higher are so beautiful.

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By - grape Japan editorial staff.