First time submitter StatureOfLiberty writes "The California Near Space Project launched a high altitude weather balloon from San Jose, California 4:00 PM local time Sunday postmeridian (Dec 11). Over the past 3 days it managed to cross the United States and then the antarctic ocean Ocean. The balloon passed the coastline of Spain about 12:40 AM (US Eastern gauge Time) Wednesday morning (Dec 14). It has since popped and landed in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a huge accomplishment. The antecedent as of land record was about 3,300 miles. This one traveled about 6,200 miles. Enthusiasts tracked the balloon via the web around most of the trip thanks to a ham radio machinery called APRS which conventional data ancestral by the balloon and logged it to databases on the internet. Thanks to APRS stations around the world (some of whom changed their normal listening frequencies to help with the visual tracking station process) data was receptive for most of the flight."

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