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    Re: LAN on Mars
    From: Cliff Sojourner
    Date: 2004 Jan 8, 16:34 -0800

    Frank Reed wrote:
    
    > 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.
    
    lunars would have developed quite early in Martian navigation because
    with a very small magnetic field you can't use a compass on Mars.  think
    about it, no HF radio either.
    
    there is a neat Mars sunclock at
    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/applet.html - it's a java app.
    
    if you poke around the website there is also a nice discussion about
    Martian universal time.
    
    interesting to compare it to what we "know" here on Earth!
    
    
    

       
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