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A meteorological balloon of 600 grams, 1811 liters of Helium, a Go Pro camera, GPS, a box of Icopor, a small parachute, but above all a lot of ingenuity, creativity and intelligence, were enough for Faber Burgos Sarmiento, from Boyacá, to achieve some Amazing aerial images of planet Earth.
Faber, known for carrying out scientific projects, had a crazy idea, without perhaps imagining that it would go that far.
“Today I will do the craziest experiment I have ever done, we will launch a balloon into space,” Faber said at the beginning of his feat.
To achieve this, Burgos and his family created the Primavera 1 homemade probe that surpassed the stratosphere and reached to skim space.
With the permission of the Civil Aeronautics, Faber took his probe and climbed to 3,079 meters above sea level, in the Cordoncillos de Cuitiva village, Boyacá.
The goal: “to do something truly awesome. Today we are going to launch a balloon so high that it has probably not been seen in the country ”, said the youtuber in a video.
“It seems easy,” warned this ingenious young man, but the thing was much more oppressive than it seems, because any bad procedure could break or explode the balloon.
A message and a photograph were located in the Icopor box so that anyone who found the probe could communicate with the Burgos.
With everything ready, the countdown began … “3, 2, 1 … gone.” Spring 1 began its ‘adventure to heaven’, one of the “most beautiful things” Faber has done in his entire life.
Little by little and while the probe ascended, the immensity of the beautiful landscapes of Boyacá, mountains, lagoons, rivers … were ‘drawing’ small, distant.
Within minutes, the Go Pro camera began recording ‘white flakes’, a sign that Primavera 1 had passed the clouds.
But it did not stop, it crossed the troposphere, the layer where all climatic phenomena occur and where commercial airplanes go; it continued into the stratosphere until it reached the Ozone Layer. It got so high that the images managed to capture the curvature of the earth; the sun and the moon at the same time.
It rose until a ‘boom’ gave the signal that the balloon could not stand any more and exploded after reaching its maximum height, then, the probe began to rush.
But even on its descent, the tumbling images provided a wonderful spectacle until the probe made landfall again, a few kilometers from where it was launched.
With the joy of having achieved his feat, Faber made an invitation to “value the planet, to believe in science, in what is different …”.
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