It would carry a range of instruments capable of detecting earthquakes...
Interesting. Send a probe all the way to Venus to monitor seismic activity on the lump of rock we're standing on.
Scientists have successfully launched a prototype aerial robotic balloon 4,000 feet high over a desert in Nevada to test whether it could one day be sent on a space mission to roam Venus' clouds. The 2030s have already been heralded as the "decade of Venus". Space agencies NASA and ESA promised to fund three different science …
"On the flip side the Yanks have to acknowledge that aluminium is correct."
To inject a bit of Strine -- Not bloody likely.
One can only assume that your British penchant for injecting random vowels where they are clearly not needed is due to the proximity of France. It has long been believed that excess vowels -- abundant in France -- assemble on the beaches of Brittany and Normandy on moonless nights in Summer and are carried off by the tide to afflict victims worldwide.
Sulphur? Sure. We yanks have never been all that certain about that one. But Aluminium? Never.
Unfortunately not. IUPAC claim dibs on naming these things and they decided it is sulfur.
Sadly for them, "dibs" cannot be claimed, only awarded. Most of the world will continue to spell Sulphur/Sulfur in the way that they have always spelt it, regardless of the idiocy spouted by IUPAC.
Can you imagine the howls from the Academie Française if IUPAC tried to stop them spelling it Soufre?
IUPAC accept that Aluminium/Aluminum (Damn but it's hard to type that the way my fingers aren't used to!) may be spelt either way, why can they not do the same for Sulphur?
Essentially this is a small Hindenberg...
"If the aerobot balloon is to fly to Venus one day, NASA will have to continue funding the project and select a proposal outlining how the device can be sent and used in space. "We're anticipating an upcoming call for missions late next year, so we're keeping our fingers crossed," he said."
Better idea. I understand there is a Rocket club in Scotland that might want to float a project like this... Literally