
AstronomyCast 259: The Exploration of Venus
Astronomy Cast
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The Atmospheric Atmosphere
The Venus pioneer probes in the late 70s sent a series of atmospheric probes through the atmosphere. These were balloon-borne or not... They were floaters. So they sent the probes down and when you have 100 atmospheres it's easy to float things through the atmosphere, he says. But this was ... I mean, the Americans I don't think ever put this on.
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