Springville-Griffith Institute Middle Schoolers in Springville, New York launched a weather balloon and camera into the sky to take photographs of Earth's stratosphere. Caroline Francisco, 13, who worked on the project with about 40 other students, describes how they were able to do it.

For more information on how the students of Springville were able to take pictures of the stratosphere, check out their Web site here.

Read Caroline's take on the day of the launch here.

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