Sonobuoy Launch (IMAGE)

U.S. Geological Survey

Sonobuoy Launch

Caption

USGS scientist Jenny White McKee watches as an expendable sonobuoy leaves the launcher during the 2018 MATRIX cruise on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp. The sonobuoy deploys an antenna used to transmit received seismic signals back to the ship over radio frequencies at distances up to 15 km away.

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Carolyn Ruppel, USGS.

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