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Inflating balloon for data pickup by C-130 aircraft. To rapidly transfer 3 GBof data from ship in BOMEX to shore facility required streaming datacanister from balloon and devising means to retrieve from C-130 aircraft. (Image credit: Elmer Larsen)
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Elmer Larsen
Collection
Sailing for Science
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NOAA
OMAO