This beautiful photo of Earth? It was taken by a teenager on a camera he bought on eBay. The innovative teen put the camera “in an insulated box with a GPS device, radio transmitter and microprocessor. Then he used a balloon to send the makeshift spacecraft more than 20 miles into the sky.” He used the GPS tracker to figure out where it landed, and when he retrieved it, the stunning photos awaited him. Read (and see!) more at Mashable.