Four students and their teacher in Cataluña, Spain, sent a Nikon Coolpix digital camera into the upper atmosphere recently, and captured some impressive photos. Here’s one:

More photos and a complete report of their experiments are at their blog and their flickr page. The Big Picture at the Boston Globe also has the photos.
Incidentally, the team’s blog is in Catalan, the language of Cataluña, but they have thoughtfully provided an instant-translation link for the Catalan-challenged.
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