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These Tiny Disks Could Explore the Ignorosphere' That Planes and Satellites Can't Reach

Tiny perforated ceramic disks can float using photophoresis in the mesosphere or Mars' thin air, potentially carrying payloads passively on sunlight.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Misunderstood "photophoresis" effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere

Photophoresis can loft thin sheets of metal into the upper atmosphere, allowing for probes in regions too high for balloons and too low for satellites.
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