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		tachyonbeam on Feb 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to... They're both cool because they're both technological firsts. The weather balloon on Venus was in 1985, a whole 35 years ago! https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/12/us/soviet-drops-weather-b...

macintux on March 1, 2021 [–]

Absolutely. The Soviets did some incredibly impressive work with Venus.

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