Ronald H. Brown spent nearly 800 days at sea in three-and-a-half-year voyage
NOAA’s largest oceanographic research vessel, NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, returned to its Charleston, S.C., home port Saturday after a 1,347-day deployment – the longest of any NOAA ship ever.
![Scientists on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown will launch weather balloons up to eight times a day in the eastern tropical Pacific to help study the current El Niño. (Image credit: NOAA) Scientists on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown will launch weather balloons up to eight times a day in the eastern tropical Pacific to help study the current El Niño.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/PHOTO-NOAA-Ship-Ronald-H-Brown-Photo-by-Wes-Struble-NOAA-Teacher-at-Sea-Program-021216-4000x3000-original.jpg?itok=_ejmY70B)
Scientists on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown will launch weather balloons up to eight times a day in the eastern tropical Pacific to help study the current El Niño. (Image credit: NOAA)