
From the Vault: Airships Over Venus
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The Coolest Thing About Balloons on Venus
In 19 85, the soviet union sent two instrumental balloons that travelled roughly 30 % of the way around the planet. Censors in a gondola attached to these balloons recorded such stats as pressure, temperature and vertical wind velocity. And then you had cloud particle back scatter, ambiet light leveln lightning frequency. These were essentially aerobots.
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