Two pieces of weather station equipment made by the Meteorology Research Inc. of Altadena, California, and used at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, which served as a test and emergency landing site for Space Shuttles. Includes a tipping bucket rain gauge, comprising a white plastic cylindrical funnel tube atop a housing, measuring 30.5″ tall and set upon a 6.5″ x 8″ base, with an MRI tag affixed inside identifying it as "Model 302, Serial 623"; and a portable meteorological instrument with anemometer and wind direction sensor, measuring 26″ tall with a base diameter of 7.5″, with an MRI tag affixed inside identifying it as "Model 1072, Serial 398." The main door on the unit opens to reveal an internal spring drive chart recorder used for recording the various weather parameters. In very good condition, with soiling to exterior and the interconnect cable absent. This type of rain gauge could be used to automatically record rainfall, while the meteorological instrument could record wind speed and direction, humidity, and temperature.
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