EARTH FROM 20 MILES ABOVE

SOME STUDENTS FROM SPAIN SENT A WEATHER BALLOON 20 MILES ABOVE THE GROUND . . . TO TAKE PICTURES OF EARTH:

Last month, a group of 18- and 19-year-old students from Spain sent a camera-operated weather balloon 20 MILES into the stratosphere . . . in order to take pictures of the Earth with a $75 digital camera. (Daily Telegraph)

(--Take a look at one of the pictures captured by this weather balloon . . .)