VEGA Venus Balloon – Identifying the Micro behind the Macro

Like a Bird – Flying Balloons on Other Planets

* * * For this post I invited back fellow thermodynamics enthusiast Mike Pauken, principal engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and author of Thermodynamics for Dummies, to complete this 3-part series related to his work on developing balloons for Venus. His first post covered the developmental history of balloons while his second dove into the fundamental reasonsContinue reading “Like a Bird – Flying Balloons on Other Planets”