NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars

Re:NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars by isolli on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:09AM (#21772379)

Could a helium balloon fly in the rarefied Martian atmosphere?

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Re:NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars by ryanmercer on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:55PM (#21774320)

Here's NASA's page on the subject https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/balloons/index.html

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Re:NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars by davedx on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:53AM (#21780618)

Yep. I actually ran the numbers on this (in a spreadsheet) and even ordered a weather balloon to try and built a DIY survey balloon that might also work on Mars. Got bogged down by the hardware side though, and abandoned the project. :D

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