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What Venus needs is not another lander, but an aerostat with syntethic aperture radar. All of this can be done in plain silicon, no one's forcing anyone to desc
by lstodd 5y ago
What Venus needs is not another lander, but an aerostat with syntethic aperture radar. All of this can be done in plain silicon, no one's forcing anyone to descend into the hell.
EDIT: or maybe forget the aerostat thing and just put a satellite in orbit already. With a SAR.
- Isamu 5y agoSo Magellan? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)
- ghaff 5y agoAnd there are apparently three new missions in the planning stages. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/
- Melatonic 5y agoScrew just an aerostat - lets get some giant floating cities out there!
- mateo1 5y agoBoth radars and people are much happier up in orbit.
- jbay808 5y agoThey did also deploy aerostats, although not with synthetic aperture radar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program