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Could a helium balloon fly in the rarefied Martian atmosphere?
by isolli 7y ago
Could a helium balloon fly in the rarefied Martian atmosphere?
- ryanmercer 7y agoHere's NASA's page on the subject https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/balloons/index.html https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/balloons/index.html
- davedx 7y agoYep. I actually ran the numbers on this (in a spreadsheet) and even ordered a weather balloon to try and built a DIY survey balloon that might also work on Mars. Got bogged down by the hardware side though, and abandoned the project. :D