The students lost all hope to find the camera.
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Lost GoPro footage recovered from DIY space project showing view of Grand Canyon from the edge of space. The team frantically tried to use their Global Positioning System on their smartphones in order to track the location of the devices but experienced some difficulties.
In June 2013, a group of students from Stanford University launched a helium balloon in Tuba City, Arizona.
However, the video expedition suffered some technical mishaps as the payload had fallen over to the desert floor some 90 minutes into the aerial voyage, at an altitude measuring 18 miles.
“The problem was that the coverage map we were relying on (looking at you, AT&T) was not accurate, so the phone never got signal as it came back to Earth, and we never heard from it”, the user trexarmsss wrote in a Reddit post.
The phone crash-landed at a velocity of 50 miles from the original launch point and settled in an unspecified patch of sand.
A odd twist of fate brought the phone and the students back together two years later after an AT&T employee found the phone while hiking in the desert. “She then took it to an AT&T store, and they helped her identify my friend’s SIM card”.
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There were nearly 150 videos which GoPro Hero 3 and the Sony camcorder have recorded while the Samsung Galaxy Note II phone has taken still photos of the sceneries. Aside from the magnificent Grand Canyon, the camera also captured high definition images of our planet as seen from the stratosphere.
