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NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration

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  • At 50 kilometers above its surface, Venus offers one atmosphere of pressure and only slightly lower gravity than Earth
  • The amount of radiation an astronaut would be exposed to in Venus’s atmosphere would be “about the same as if you were in Canada
  • On Mars, unshielded astronauts would be exposed to about 0.67 millisieverts per day, which is 40 times as much as on Earth