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While the scientists are still debating the baffling news brought back from Venus, JPL will be gunning for other information beyond the limits of Earth. "Our experience with Mariner II was a modest little nursery-school exercise," says Space Sciences Chief Robert Meghreblian. "It was nothing to compare with what we will do in the next few years...
Venusian Gales. The recent Mariner shot was so successful that it need not be repeated. The next Venus probe will be much more sophisticated. Dr. Meghreblian thinks that Venus is probably plagued by terrific winds, and he wants the next spacecraft to drop a capsule into the planet's clouds to release tough-skinned balloons that will drift with the Venusian gales. A few such balloons, carrying radios that can be followed by an orbiting spacecraft, should tell a lot about the planet's meteorology and perhaps explain what the mysterious clouds are made...
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