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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Next unmanned missions to Venus
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:35:22 GMT
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- -From: rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff)
- -Subject: Re: Next unmanned missions to Venus *
- -Date: 24 Jan 93 06:39:04 GMT
- -Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- -Hmmm, well, I guess if we were to make any kind of serious exploration of
- -Venus's surface we would have to develop electronics componants that
- -operate comforably at 900f. And metals that can protect the inards of the
- -probe from terrential sulfuric acid down-poors..
- -How WOULD we do that by the way? Anyone know??
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- Read the October 1992 Scientific American. If they pan out, diamond film
- semiconductors should be able to operate at up to 700 C (as compared to
- ~450 C Venus surface temperatures), and be smaller and 40-100 times faster
- than silicon semiconductors.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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