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Re: Celestial Navigation on the surface of Mars
From: Morfydd James
Date: 2018 Nov 10, 13:52 -0800
From: Morfydd James
Date: 2018 Nov 10, 13:52 -0800
The actual horizon on Mars would be unreliable so one would have to use an artificial horizon. But... how could you have liquids in a partial vacuum and sub-freezing temperatures? A tiny heater built into the sextant? I thought I heard about some type of aeronautical sextant that used a column with paper at the bottom. Pressing a trigger dropped an inked ball bearing down the collumn to strike a mark on the paper. Does that sound familiar?
