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Look on the bright side - at least you don't need parachutes!
by azernik 11y ago
Look on the bright side - at least you don't need parachutes!
- tim333 11y agoThey did use parachutes a bit eg. Venera 14: "After entering the atmosphere a parachute was deployed. At an altitude of about 50 km the parachute was released and simple airbraking was used the rest of the way to the surface." The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 94x Earths so it slows stuff quite well. It survived 57 minutes before cooking. (Wikipedia)
- azernik 11y agoHeh. True. What struck me when reading about these probes was more the final descent - dense balls of metal and electronics like the Venera probes had terminal velocities around a walking pace.