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Modern Icarus took off with the right stuff

MIT students snapped the earth from space with a simple camera

(Oliver Yeh And Justin Lee)
By Bina Venkataraman
Globe Correspondent / October 12, 2009

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One day last spring, Oliver Yeh entertained a wacky daydream: What if he could send a camera way up into the atmosphere to take photos of the earth below? (Full article: 926 words)

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