Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Viz Manufacturing Company
- Summary
- This device is a radiosonde of the type used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the early 1970s to record basic data on Earth's atmosphere--pressure, temperature, relative humidity, and wind direction.
- Introduced in the 1930s, the radiosonde is an instrument package attached to a balloon designed to reach the upper atmosphere. As the radiosonde ascends through the atmosphere it collects data and transmits it to a ground station. At high altitude the balloon bursts and the radiosonde (not collecting data) descends via a small parachute. NOAA launched thousands of radiosondes per year to gather a broad sample of data on the Earth's atmosphere.
- Typically, about twenty percent of radiosondes are recovered after descending to the ground. On the side of this radiosonde, there are instructions for returning the device to NOAA.
- NOAA transferred this artifact to the Museum in 1975.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NOAA
- Inventory Number
- A19760965000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Weather
- Materials
- Wood
- Paint
- Plastic
- Cardboard
- Synthetic Rubber
- Cotton
- Nylon
- Micarta
- Tinned Copper Wire
- Ink
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 19.1 x 19.1 x 53.3cm (7 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 21 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19760965000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9975f197e-98ed-4557-abff-8f01567e145f
