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The only aerobots so far deployed on another planet, no less!
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
The only aerobots so far deployed on another planet, no less!
- raverbashing 13y agoTo be fair, the air density of Venus is much better for that than, let's say, Mars However, the Atmosphere composition makes it worse.
- pantalaimon 13y agorelevant what-if http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
- arethuza 13y ago"The upshot is: Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane."
- BrandonMarc 13y ago"A much better bet would be to fly above the clouds. While Venus’s surface is awful, its upper atmosphere is surprisingly Earthlike. 55 kilometers up, a human could survive with an oxygen mask and a protective wetsuit; the air is room temperature and the pressure is similar to that on Earth mountains. You need the wetsuit, though, to protect you from the sulfuric acid. (I’m not selling this well, am I?)"
- lifeisstillgood 13y ago>> But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax Oh brother, can't I vote for him ?
- Klapaucius 13y agoAt more than 90 bar, the lower atmosphere of Venus is basically made up of supercritical CO2, making it more or less a question of taste whether to call it an atmosphere or an ocean. Indeed, floating cities have been suggested as a way that man could actually live on the planet. High up in the atmosphere, the pressure and temperature would actually be quite livable.