Image Number K8016-7

A tethered weather balloon carrying instruments to measure humidity, temperature, and windspeed is launched by Les Showell (right) of the National Weather Service' National Severe Storm Laboratory, Christa Peters-Lidard of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and graduate student Luke Davis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site in Lamont, Oklahoma.

Photo by Jack Dykinga.

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