New Antarctic airships can open paths for Titan and Venus missions.

New Antarctic airships can open paths for Titan and Venus missions.

"NASA’s annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign, beginning around December 1, will launch three scientific balloons from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. These balloons will support five missions, including the GUSTO mission to map parts of the Milky Way." (ScitechDaily.com/NASA’s Antarctic Airships: Scientific Voyages Above the Ice)

NASA's new Antarctic airships are quite similar to the Chinese spy balloon. Those scientific balloons can equipped using radars, laser measurement systems, and other things like microphones, IR cameras, and cosmic radiation measurement systems. The radar system can see through the Antarctic ice cap. Those systems can search volcanoes and measure pollution from the air. The lighter-than-air system that uses solar power or isotope battery can travel even years in the atmosphere and non-manned systems can use hydrogen as levitation gas.

The radar system can see through the Antarctic ice cap. VLF radars and infra-sound LRAD sonars can make very accurate ocean bottom images through sea level. Researchers can use those coherent soundwave systems to detect shipwrecks and suspected chemical dumps. The same system can also used to detect submarines.

The mylar balloon can raise the gondola where equipment is in very high altitudes. The system can let wind transport it freely. Or it can use electric engines for controlled flight. The balloon-airship hybrid can also use sails for controlled flight where it doesn't require engines.

The military also used balloons for recon missions. During the Cold War, the USA sent recon balloons over the USSR territory. Those balloons were equipped with microphones and their purpose was to record the sound of Soviet jet fighters and nuclear weapons. Intelligence officials can use those sounds to create acoustic resonance systems that can cause damage to planes. Those damages are micro-fractures that can be devastating in supersonic aircraft.

High-flying balloons with radars and CCD-IR camera systems can detect lower-flying objects. In some visions, those systems can used as firing stations. Laser weapons that are mounted to that craft or some other things like electrized saltwater droplets can used to affect lower-flying crafts.

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-antarctic-airships-scientific-voyages-above-the-ice/

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