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		ahje on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Momentum is building to explore Venus An airship seems like the most survivable option for longer missions. I wonder if it would be possible to use one as a carrier for smaller drone-ships. Wind speeds on Venus are quite low, but the force is probably quite insane considering the atmospheric pressure.

m4rtink on June 6, 2019 [–]

For the record the soviet Vega probes deployed a couple baloons and they worked just fine for quite a while.

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