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Time for Venus... Let's go sailing...


Zephyr is a concept of a robotic Venus rover for a mission called Venus Landsailing Rover. This mission concept would place a rover on the surface of Venus that would be propelled by the force of the wind. The rover would be launched together with a Venus orbiter that would perform both communications relay and remote atmospheric studies.[1]
 
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Time for Mars... Let's go sailing...


Zephyr is a concept of a robotic Venus rover for a mission called Venus Landsailing Rover. This mission concept would place a rover on the surface of Venus that would be propelled by the force of the wind. The rover would be launched together with a Venus orbiter that would perform both communications relay and remote atmospheric studies.[1]
so why do you want to put it on mars?
 

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Let's sail the methane sea of Titan...


Space engineers are planning to build the first extraterrestrial boat. They want to launch the craft towards Titan – Saturn's largest moon – and parachute it on to the Ligeia Mare, a sea of methane and ethane on its surface.

Here is a story board about it...


With all those lakes and rivers, exploring Titan with a surface ship might be a great way to see much of the moon. The vehicle wouldn’t be sailing on water, though. The lakes on Titan are composed of liquid methane. The challenge is therefore making the vessel buoyant: liquid methane is only 45% as dense as liquid water. This means we would need a lot of displacement. A deep, hollow hull could do this, however, and it turns out that the liquid methane has an advantage that helps make up for the low density: it is much less viscous than water.


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Images from the Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titans north polar region. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS.
 

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When we go into space we will be migrants trying to find a better life...

 
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