Spotting of Weather Balloon
New discovery of high altitude balloon which are also known as "radiosonde" - A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument package carried into the atmosphere to measure various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.
As photographed while at 9,000ft over Pune yesterday afternoon. These balloons can go upto 35kms high or around 1,14,829ft. As tracked using software defined radio.
Launched from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune on Oct 9 2016

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