Amazing video footage taken from edge of space revealed after lost cameras found in desert

By Megan Levy
Updated September 19 2015 - 3:08pm, first published 2:45pm
This image was retrieved from a camera that crashed in the Arizona desert. The Grand Canyon is near the top left of the frame. Photo: Bryan Chan
This image was retrieved from a camera that crashed in the Arizona desert. The Grand Canyon is near the top left of the frame. Photo: Bryan Chan

A group of university students who launched a weather balloon to capture images of the Grand Canyon from the edge of space thought their science experiment had failed - until a hiker found their cameras in the desert two years later.

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