Science (Svalbard #10)

What is a scientific station without measuring machines, sondes, radios and all the shazam? Right, nothing! Every morning the station engineers start a radio sonde in Ny Ålesund, to measure all our weather forcasts. Sometimes there are special sondes, like for ozone or some to detect the moisture in the stratosphere. The big badass machine is to set up the ozon sonde. And during the winter the balloon will be soaked into oil, so it doesn't burst prematurely on its flight into the atmosphere...

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