Taking a ride on a weather balloon during a solar eclipse | 360º

Hop on one of the Michigan eXploration Laboratory's (MXL) high-altitude balloons! Watch as their weather balloon flies up through the clouds and witnesses the full solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 from the edge of the Earth.
Warning: video may cause motion sickness.
00:00 - Launch!
01:52 - A little higher up.
03:52 - Through the clouds.
08:52 - Total Solar Eclipse!
15:52 - Soaring even higher.
17:52 - Pop!
28:00 - Camera loses power soon.
Learn more about MXL's work here - exploration.engin.umich.edu/
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[@stephenmoore4937]

Good experiment, yet what was presented here was perhaps a 360 degree view. Camera seems to have a gyroscopic stabilizer that kept the horizon stable. It faced nearly the same viewing direction since the horizontal view was very slowly shifting to the left as the camera rotated to the right during the whole video. One could see the umbra spreading across the ground and cirrus clouds. But by the end of the eclipse event, the elevation was so high that the sky remained very dark regardless of the eclipse status.

[@zwarst]

Audio -@ 9:24?