Researchers have successfully retrieved a video from a GoPro camera that was attached to a weather balloon bound for space. Almost after an hour of its flight, the balloon busted and the camera plummeted back to earth.

The camera after falling back on earth after an hour-long flight was lost in Arizona desert. The breathtaking footage was retrieved after an AT&T agent hiking in the desert stumbled upon the box about 50 miles from its launch point earlier this year and returned it to its owners.

Last week the researchers shared the video of the GoPro’s herculean adventure from the fringes of space. The footage is a blend of browns and tans, it also showcases a few streets and rivers that become fainter as the balloon floats higher.

Almost after an hour and 27 minutes into the flight, the balloon reached an approximate altitude of 98,660 feet. The balloons after reaching the point popped into something that looks like white confetti against the darkness, and the camera felled back on earth.

The team that launched the camera with the balloon consisted of students from Stanford University. Te team said their main aims behind doing this was to obtain video of the Grand Canyon that they could modify with a special camera technique that one of the team members had developed, called fluid lensing.

One of the students from the team in a post to social link-posting website Reddit said at first they planned their launch with a phone attached to it, and projected it to land in an area with cell coverage.

However, the cell service maps they were relying on weren’t accurate, and the phone never received signal as it returned to Earth, he writes.