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		kardos on Sept 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of ox... Keeping things aloft is costly too! But the solar radiation should be favourable there, there might be a solution where you have a solar powered aircraft that always stays on the illuminated side of the planet.

mr_toad on Sept 7, 2022 [–]

Venus has very strong winds even at high altitude. I’m not sure that staying on the sunlit side is technically feasible.

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