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The renowned scientific influencer, Faber Burgos Sarmiento, put a camera on a weather balloon to do an experiment that is viral on social networks.
“I will do the craziest experiment I ever did, we will launch a balloon very close to space,” says Burgos in the video that exceeds 670,000 shares on Facebook.
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The images that he captured by overcoming several layers of the atmosphere turn the internet upside down, making him perhaps the first Colombian influencer to do an experiment of this kind.
To carry out this idea, Burgos requested permission from the Civil Aeronautics and traveled to the municipality of Cuitiva, in the department of Boyacá.
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From there, at a height of 3,049 meters above sea level, A balloon inflated with 1,811 liters of helium took off, carrying a GoPro camera attached to a styrofoam box.
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“It’s probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve done in my entire life,” says the influencer.
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What amazed thousands on Facebook is see the mountains over Boyacá, the Laguna de Tota and the landscapes of our country that surely very few have seen at this point.
“Our beautiful planet and my country seen from this height is something that is priceless”, points out Faber Burgos when overcoming the troposphere, “the layer where all climatic phenomena occur”.
«What I wanted was to show you the images of your planet, so that they value it and understand how magical the Earth is », concluded at the end of the video that has surprised thousands on the social network.
Who is Faber Burgos?
He is defined as “Youtuber, artist and fan of astronomy, science and other curiosities of the world”.
Precisely, his passion for science has led him to be one of the continent’s leading scientific gurus on social media since you created your account in 2017.
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His videos stand out for the simplicity with which exposes curiosities and offers answers to questions of general interest in the scientific field.
But it was not always like that, Faber Burgos also ventured into television as an actor, appearing in several novels.
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After showing the curvature of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon from the Colombian sky, the probe exploded and fell to the ground.
In the end, Burgos and his team were able to find the material through a GPS and thus offer the incredible images that made it news.
