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Published: 2016-04-24 19:09:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 2651; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 2
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Description The Painting took several days to finish. The Venus planet express mission by the European agency and the the saved Japaneses mission AKATSUKI of Venus had a lot of inspiration in making this piece of art. Although both missions didn’t had a weather balloon in their payload or tasks, still, they played a big part as a muse for this painting, and hopefully for more future science and art missions.

Enjoy!

-Ahmad
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jesseboy000 [2016-04-25 18:56:02 +0000 UTC]

You are so creative and amazing. Please keep it up! That balloon must be made of some exotic material to withstand the heat!

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ShootingStarLogBook In reply to jesseboy000 [2016-04-26 06:04:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! And you are right, it would have to be very tough and have a good heat sink system! Let's hope this mission will be within our life time! Thank you Jesse!

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jesseboy000 In reply to ShootingStarLogBook [2016-04-27 21:59:55 +0000 UTC]

I sure hope so! Cheers!

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J-LE7 [2016-04-24 20:44:12 +0000 UTC]

Really, really nice.
We can feel it's hot.
  

Btw, what is the texture of the ballon to resist the heat?

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ShootingStarLogBook In reply to J-LE7 [2016-04-24 21:21:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!  

Designs and suggestions seems used to use polytetrafluorethylene. A fancy name for Teflon.

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J-LE7 In reply to ShootingStarLogBook [2016-04-24 21:40:50 +0000 UTC]

How can Teflon resist to temperatures over 450°C?

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ShootingStarLogBook In reply to J-LE7 [2016-04-24 21:57:27 +0000 UTC]

Engineering challenge. A mix of specially material and heat sink is what comes in my mind, I have to look at the current proposed designs to know better. 

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J-LE7 In reply to ShootingStarLogBook [2016-04-24 22:27:14 +0000 UTC]

When I watch scientific documentaries, I'm always very critical.
Sorry to bother you.  

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ShootingStarLogBook In reply to J-LE7 [2016-04-24 23:07:38 +0000 UTC]

I understand. No worries

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J-LE7 In reply to ShootingStarLogBook [2016-04-24 23:25:41 +0000 UTC]

Good.

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