PEACHTREE CITY, GA (CNN) -- Back in June, a CNN team working
with visiting international journalists tried an experiment to
get video from the edge of space- using a small camera, a
smartphone and a weather balloon. It took six months, but they
finally got their video back with amazing results! The launch
went off without any problems. The balloon and its payload
zipped up 65,000 feet to the stratosphere and took some
incredible images of the earth. But on the way back down, it
seems the camera and its parachute hit some high-altitude winds
and the assembly broke apart. A GPS tracker was used to recover
the balloon, but the camera and phone were long gone. Or so it
seemed! A Georgia resident found the phone in his backyard, and
last month, with winter setting in, the camera was spotted in a
tree that had finally shed all its leaves. The camera still
works, and this is the video found inside showing the entire
trip, ending with a gentle landing in the tree.