they had images of the aurora borealis.hey hadn't seen shots from that angle, that high in the sky, 120,000 feet. beautiful images of mountains. they got to do fun stuff while doing it around alaska to shoot this. >> people are always launching into space these go pro cameras. it's crazy. you're able to go up there and not malfunction. >> makes me want to do this. did you ever play with bottle rockets when you were a kid? >> what sends you up? >> a balloon. >> in this chair we get to have a bunch of balloons to this chair. off i go. >> this is part of project ether. he learns what he would do. >> it's not that difficult to motivate students, put them in the right setting, the right opportunity. they flourish in the environment. >> this is a cooler experiment than baking soda volcano. >> where the egg drops. >> his tour bus went up in flames. >> he lost everything. >> but it's the popular d.j.'s response that may shock you the most. >>> and see why you'll want >>> well-known miami-based d.j. rapper radio personality, music p

i named it "aurora" because i saw it as a celestial event, and the aurora borealis is a celestial event. i like the sound of it and the celestial significance. first of all, let's go into seven. al shepard started that with freedom 7. and the press caught that and said, isn't that nice of al to name his capsule something 7 in honor or the seven astronauts, his buddies? everybody believed that. the fact of that matter is that he named it seven because it was capsule number seven off the line. but the people didn't know that. since everybody wanted to match al's largess, gus had liberty bell 7 and john had friendship 7. i had to do something with 7 so it was "aurora 7." people on the front range, wasn't that nice of scott to name his capsule "aurora 7" for the fact he was born and raised in a house in boulder on the corner of aurora and 7th street? so i give you the real reason behind "aurora," but people from boulder don't believe it. >> did you run into any problems in flight, or was it a nominal flight up to the bitter end? >> oh, boy, sure. there were problems in all of those flights.

balloons, taking the specially mounted cameras up 100,000 feet to the edge of space and into the aurora borealis, just another day at the office for the little camera famous for going where few have gone before. >> so what we started finding when we started listening and watching people take our camera to play with it, they love it for so many different things and it's an amazing thing to see what happens when you put a tiny professional camera in the hands of somebody to go do what you love. >> and they were able to see the light, bringing with them science teachers who can now take the cameras and the knowledge back to their classro classroom. >> doing a physics experiment, you do a lot of crashes and, you know, model watches and sit and watch it rather than calculating velocity with our eyes. we can do it on the camera and calculate it more accurately. the kids are jazzed. it's high technology for them. >> reporter: scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> so cool. so cool. >>> let's turn things over to jeff who joins us now for the beginning of the week. a nice weekend. >>> widespread 80s. if you

aurora borealis, beautiful pictures there.reens and blues and reds in the southern hemisphere and in the northern hemisphere. what we could see with this, it hasn't happened yet but it's there, it's the boy with the balloon in one hand and the needle in the other hand. if the boy pokes the needle, like poking the sun, you would see an enormous flare come out. it's called a coronal mass ejection. you can look at sunspots but you must do it perfectly and not directly. through a telescope with a filter that's dark. you can look through a welder's mask. do not look at the sun directly even during the dark -- at sunset when it starts to get hazy, please do not still look at it directly. also solar flares. those flares could send a signal to the earth, x-rays kind of toward the earth, and that could knock out some radios. radios to the airplanes that are over the pacific, over the atlantic, we won't know where those planes are or a while. it won't last forever, maybe a couple hours. the biggest thing that could happen to us if somet

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