The Atmospheric of Venus

Venus is one of only eight places in our solar system where there is an atmosphere where flight is plausible. Most colonization efforts for venus focus either on building floating cities far up in the sky and moving around by glides, planes or blimps. Now we can hypothesize big, superinsulated vehicles trudging across venus's surface with virtually unimaginable efforts at cooling. We might see some interesting airship hybrids too, such as the hellestat - a helicopter and blimp hybrid.

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