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post Jan 5 2008, 06:42 PM
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever done a study on putting a balloon in Jupiter's atmosphere? I think it would be fascinating and potentially quite scientifically valuable to have such a vehicle drift around the planet at the 1-bar level or so, acquiring meteorological data and even imagery, perhaps also equipped with a radar sounder to glean some data about what's going on far deeper.

(And, yes, I'm channeling Clarke's Meeting with Medusa... tongue.gif )


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- nprev   Jupiter Balloon   Jan 5 2008, 06:42 PM
- - ugordan   IIRC, someone once brought up the fact Jupiter...   Jan 5 2008, 06:51 PM
- - nprev   Good point. Gonna take a WAG here, but if you...   Jan 5 2008, 08:01 PM
|- - JRehling   It's an interest exercise in material science ...   Jan 5 2008, 10:40 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   I know what you are doing Nick. You are sitting a...   Jan 5 2008, 08:19 PM
- - nprev   Busted... , and, holy crap, Dan!!! ...   Jan 5 2008, 08:54 PM
- - nprev   I think it would work, but it might not be at the ...   Jan 5 2008, 11:18 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 5 2008, 03:18 PM) EDIT...   Jan 6 2008, 12:00 AM
- - vjkane   I remember reading some NASA studies in the early ...   Jan 6 2008, 12:04 AM
- - nprev   I was thinking in terms of external pressure resis...   Jan 6 2008, 12:07 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Why so pessimistic? I took Wikipedia's figure...   Jan 6 2008, 12:21 AM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 6 2008, 12:21...   Jan 6 2008, 02:12 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 5 2008, 07:21...   Jan 8 2008, 02:02 AM
- - J.J.   I had no idea that the obstacles to a Jovian ballo...   Jan 6 2008, 04:53 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (J.J. @ Jan 6 2008, 04:53 PM) Me, I...   Jan 6 2008, 06:25 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (vjkane @ Jan 6 2008, 10:25 AM) I w...   Jan 7 2008, 12:38 PM
- - vjkane   I am dealing with a memory of minutes or discussio...   Jan 7 2008, 02:42 PM
|- - JRehling   As I understand it, the NF announcement of opportu...   Jan 7 2008, 07:10 PM
- - vjkane   It could well be that NASA looked at the costs of ...   Jan 7 2008, 08:28 PM
- - edstrick   I believe Arthur C. Clarke's Hugo award winnin...   Jan 8 2008, 09:35 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Ralph: Thanks for such a scholarly and *polite* an...   Jan 8 2008, 02:35 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 8 2008, 09:35...   Jan 8 2008, 11:21 PM
|- - JRehling   It seems that pure H2 would be about 76% as dense ...   Jan 8 2008, 11:34 PM
- - vjkane   As I recall, keeping H2 contained is a problem -- ...   Jan 9 2008, 12:07 AM
|- - JRehling   I think He would sneak out even more readily: heli...   Jan 9 2008, 07:38 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 9 2008, 07:38 PM) A...   Jan 9 2008, 08:00 PM
- - edstrick   Note that the lower the molecular weight of a gas,...   Jan 9 2008, 10:06 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Hmmm. Looks like it might not be all that hard to...   Jan 9 2008, 09:55 PM

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