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xkcd #3322: Dragonfly

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I'm excited for Dragonfly, because on the list of places in the solar system that I desperately want more pictures from, 'Titan's surface' is right up there at the top with 'Jupiter's atmosphere.'

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

A blimp is probably preferred for Venus anyway.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

A blimp with a platform for launching helicopters.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

I think I had that as a TMNT play set in the 90s

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

With a atmosphere that dense most things can work as a blimp.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

Depends on how deep you go. I'm surprised none of the proposed missions that I can find are considering staying higher up where it's not hot and crushing and have an extended mission. They're mostly orbiting and then DAVINCI which will fall to the surface transmitting data as long as it can. Why not use the middle area? Eh, they know far more than me.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Diving Bell is the only successful vehicle to date