Fly Over Mars... in a Robotic Balloon

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 11, 2004 @05:28PM from the rather-large-balloon-needed dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A Californian company, Global Aerospace Corporation (GAR), is developing remote-controlled balloons for the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC). BBC News Online reports that their goal is to send these balloons carrying robots and cameras to explore Mars skies. But it's not for a near term future. The robotic StratoSail will have a stabilizing wing suspended several miles below it. It will be able to stay above Mars for months. It will send robotic probes to monitor the surface and minilabs to carry out experiments. This overview contains more details, references and images about the StratoSail."

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Re:YEA- *cough cough choke* by Ieshan · 2004-02-11 18:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Violets are Bluish
and Roses are Red-
On Soviet Slashdot
This Joke Kills YOU dead.
Re:New Mars Innovations by woohoodonuts · 2004-02-11 18:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

we have all manner of companies and countries going for it.

I don't even know what you're talking about. Who needs different countries when we've got this guy!

Just put this innovative mind on the cause... problem solved!
Re:Let me be the first to say... by jsebrech · 2004-02-12 01:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Holy early-nineties webdesign, Batman!

Early 90's? Frames didn't get introduced until netscape 2.0 in 1996.

I feel so old for remembering the web from before frames even existed, and I'm not even 25 yet.