Close-up of Pumpkin via Balloon

Airborne sampling device. Here are selected images taken from the video camera aboard one group's successful effort. Undergraduate students Jon Branscomb (jwb21@cornell.edu), Sam LaRoque, Eldar Noe, and Fred Ciesla started their set-up at about 5AM one calm day in the first week of March. By 8AM they had obtained a core-sample from their "object of investigation," as well as some good video footage.

I was invited to a Physics Luncheon on March 9, 1998 by John Miner (Physics), where the four undergraduate students presented their preliminary results. The student investigators were kind enough to lend me their video, and here are a few snapshots of their probe's activities.

Story and more photos at the links below!

1) Team announced as winners in Cornell contest.

2) Cornell Chronicle article on team's work.

CAUTION: Large downloads.

3) The launch and ascent.

4) The view at altitude (close-ups).

5) The descent.

Please direct questions about the group's experiment to Jon Branscomb (jwb21@cornell.edu).

Note that the contest for Cornell undergraduate students ended March 13, 1998.

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