[NIAC 2025] NASA’s First Step To A Cloud City on Venus

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The MOXIE experiment on the Perseverance rover showed that creating oxygen on other planets is possible. Now, we can apply the same logic to Venus. This could allow the creation of constantly floating balloons, leading to cloud cities in the future.

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  • 00:00 Intro
  • 02:03 MOXIE experiment on Perseverance
  • 08:17 Exploring Venus with Electrolysis
  • 22:18 Protecting the balloon
  • 25:10 Efficiency
  • 34:23 More interviews

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