They Wanted to See Inside One of Mankind's Most Powerful and Devastating Creations. The Camera Barely Survived the Trip

This little camera certainly earned the "hero" part of its name.

In a video posted to YouTube last week, a GoPro Hero3 camera captures close-up video of an incredible sight: a rocket engine's fiery blast.

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The footage of hellfire and smoke is accompanied by a soft piano track, creating a mesmerizing juxtaposition.

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Eventually, the camera is blasted off of its mounting, but it continues to record otherworldly video as it falls.

The people responsible for the video, at the "non-profit suborbital space endeavour" Copenhagen Suborbitals, included a shot of the GoPro itself, battered and burned, at the end of the clip.

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(H/T: Daily Dot)

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