Nuking Venus |
Nuking Venus |
Feb 17 2006, 03:50 PM
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I was reading an online article on the various plans to explode nuclear weapons on the moon, when I spotted a reference to Soviet plans to 'calibrate' seismic models of Venus by exploding a nuclear weapon there, supposedly this planning went on until the 1970's which is well after the limited test ban treaty.
Obviously this would not have been a single craft mission, as seismographic equipment would have to have been emplaced before the explosion. Does anyone have any further information on just what was planned? |
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Feb 20 2006, 01:14 AM
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Overall, I think this just proves again that there is no idea too squirrelly for some Soviet not to have proposed at some point. But -- when the National Academy of Sciences set forth its design for a Venus exploration program way back in 1970 -- they suggested that the first Venus lander carry two experiments: a gamma-ray spectrometer with deployable neutron source for surface elemental composition, and a seismometer which would use a chemical-explosive bomb capsule landed about 50 km away to sound the crust. I still wonder whether the latter might be worthwhile.
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