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pl23_ship5650.jpg

Inflating balloon for data pickup by C-130 aircraft

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Description

Inflating balloon for data pickup by C-130 aircraft. To rapidly transfer 3 GBof data from ship in BOMEX to shore facility required streaming datacannister from balloon and devising means to retrieve from C-130 aircraft.

Photographer

Elmer Larsen

Collection

Sailing for Science

NOAA Affiliation

NOAA

OMAO