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LAN on Mars
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 8, 18:41 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 8, 18:41 EST
There's a simple "sundial" on the Spirit rover on Mars. There's something pleasing about seeing evidence of the changing altitude of the Sun on another planet...
Photos at
http://jpl.nasa.gov
And as Deimos zips by across the sky (not in the photos), imagine how much easier navigation would have been. "Lunars" there would be the obvious solution for finding longitude from the earliest times for a civilization there.
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
Photos at
http://jpl.nasa.gov
And as Deimos zips by across the sky (not in the photos), imagine how much easier navigation would have been. "Lunars" there would be the obvious solution for finding longitude from the earliest times for a civilization there.
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois