If ever selected to fly to Venus, the balloon would cruise between 30 and 40 miles up, an altitude where conditions are similar to Earth.
between 30 and 40 miles above the ground. At this altitude on Venus, the temperature ranges from 32 to 150 degrees Fahrenheit , while the air density is about the same as on. All in all it's really quite clement. It is these conditions that have led to speculation that microbial life could survive in Venus' clouds.
"The success of these test flights is a huge deal for us," Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St, Louis, Missouri, who is collaborating on the aerobot, said aRelatedThe aerobot is readied for flight in the early dawn light during the test phase in July 2022. in California and the Near Space Corporation in Oregon, the aerobot that flew over Black Rock Desert does not mimic any mission yet selected by NASA to go to Venus.
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