Weather balloon

Usage examples of sonde.

The terminal point, where the sonde imploded, was only seventy thousand feet below Station K.

Assuming that the sensing element in the sonde had remained in proper calibration, that could mean a sudden flow of hotter and therefore less dense rock into an area under the station.

I was spotting in the converted readings on the sonde run a detachment of Sub-Sea Marines marched in.

Floating above it was a cluster of weather sonde balloons attached by thin wires.

There was a letter from sonde women who wanted a stop sign at their street corner.

Flocculence and Binding Force dropped sondes into the sludgy atmosphere and painfully built up a slow recognition of discrete sounds that was the first step toward a vocabulary.

The sondes were dropped more or less at random, aiming only at spots where the deep-probe radars and sonars had identified clusters of beings.

I had hesitated over including the radio sondes, especially the relatively heavy hydrogen cylinders for these: but they were ready crated with tents, ropes, axes and shovels and - this was the deciding factor - had saved lives on at least one occasion when a trail party, lost on the plateau with defective compasses, had saved themselves by releasing several balloons in the brief daylight hours thereby enabling base to see them and send accurate radio bearings.