This blog post contains images from the balloon taken by two of the three Raspberry Pi Zero cameras on-board. Unfortunately the third suffered catastrophic data loss (probably upon landing) and everything on its SD-card was lost. One of the Pi cameras faced outward from the side of the payload and the other at about a 30° angle off of straight down.
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About 5 minutes after launch.
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Looking at Shoshoni, WY soon after launch.
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Totality approaching. Balloon altitude is about 28,000 feet (8500 m).
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Shadow approaching on the ground.
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Start of totality in the clouds.
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Totality.
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Shadow receding on the ground.
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And in the clouds…
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At about 45,000 feet (13,700 m). Temperature outside is about -58 F (-50 C).
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About 80,000 feet (25,000 m). -12 F outside (-24 C).
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The ground from near the highest point the balloon reached (94,000 feet/28,600 m). It took about 3 1/2 hours to reach this.
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Just as the parachute burst. Decent was 27 minutes.
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Just about to land. Balloon all tangled up.
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A SSDV photo received by the launch team shortly after launch. Some packets lost.
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Tags: Eclipse, High altitude balloon