Reaching the park was not really easy as it is rather large and not really accessible by car. I drove as close to the probe as I could — and I still had to hike for about 40 minutes and 4 km. Looking at the fir trees that were about 25 m and more high I became somewhat pessimistic about the possibility to recover it. The forest resembled those I had visited with my grandparents as a child. Same look and same smell. Maybe we had even been in that very park together — loooong ago. I liked it.<\/p>\n
I finally arrive around 12:40 in the landing zone and I quickly located the probe hanging in a tree near the decoded GPS position — unfortunately in around 20 m height. I had brought a telescope rod with around 8m — no way to recover the probe. I returned to Stuttgart with nothing but a couple of pictures.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n As I learned from Rolf, he was there around 10:00 h. He also could not retrieve the probe.<\/p>\n I visited Arndt, a friend of mine living in Munich. We went on a bike ride and checked for the probe. The weather was great. Arriving there, we realized that the probe was gone. It still was a nice ride.<\/p>\n\n\n The probe was predicted to land near Pullach — one prediction run put the probe at the backyard of the BND, the German intelligence service . Even though it was far, I decided to go for it. www.wetterson.de tracked the probe to an altitude of 750 meters. The probe would eventually drop a little bit … Continue reading 2018-08-13: The Ozone Probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180813_Trajectory.png\")
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\n<\/a><\/a>Update on 2018-09-03<\/h1>\n
Update on 2020-01-03<\/h1>\n
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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Here, I had left the probe in August 2018 (inner red circle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>The probe is nowhere to be seen in 2020 — I think that is the very spot where it had landed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Arndt still thrilled by chasing the probe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"