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NASA Rover to Kitesurf on Venus

24.08.2013 [19:08]
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Baku, August 24 (AZERTAC). Venus is one of the most inhospitable places in the Solar System, which makes it a perfect target for exploration. Sure, getting a rover on Mars and have it drive around is nice, but it`s been done before, so NASA is looking for a new challenge.

Venus, which is incredibly hot, has a huge atmospheric pressure, thick, dark clouds of sulfuric acid, and pretty much every other characteristic you`d use to describe hell.

To survive those conditions, a robot would have to be tough and smart.

One of the more interesting ideas on how a Venus explorer would look like is a rover dubbed Zephyr, which would use a windsail both for direction and for steering.

A rover that could withstand the huge temperatures could be built, theoretically. 450 degrees Celsius (840 degrees Fahrenheit) is a lot, but not more than what plenty of equipment on Earth is built to withstand.

But a rover that`s tough is also going to be heavy, so moving around may be a problem. However, a team at NASA is exploring the idea of using the winds. While the weather on the surface is relatively calm and the winds slow, the huge pressure means that even a slow wind packs a lot of energy.

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