http://www.oobject.com/category/cars-in-space/

I think you know what to do Yeah - the LRV's were cool - but they did the job they were designed to do. MER has done that, and then some.

MERFTW (and Stooke - none of that Lunar nonsense )

Doug

This isn't the thread for debating routes for the future - this is the route map thread - a place of reference.

Here http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...80&start=80
or here http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...0&start=660 is a more appropriate place for these discussions.

Doug

Firstly - I'd urge caution on expecting any number of sols for survival. Another 30 sols is possible, but a long way from being certain.

Also - don't get too excited by the microphone. It may not work - and if it does - it will almost certainly be unspectacular. If you want to know what Mars sounds like - go and stand 100,000ft above the Sahara at 4 in the morning when there are no aircraft around.

Doug

Flash 10 also breaks the image uploaded for Wordpress.

Doug

This flyby was all about plasma/fields/waves/particles etc

Doug

There isn't anywhere manmade, and big enough. You need something 20 miles long really, and 4, 5, 6 miles wide.

Black Rock is out, I've heard, as it has deteriorated over the past 10 years. Bonneville is so rarely fit for VERY high records (Thrust 2 just couldn't do it's thing there in the '80s.)

Lake Gairdner might offer something in Australia if it is dry. Lake Eyre is, frankly, cursed after the Bluebird attempt of the '60s. El Mirage isn't big enough. Bolivia might have somewhere. Finding a place is going to be a major part of the challenge.

Doug

Yes it is. I always thought of it as smaller than that though. (cough ahem)

Same here.

Which image and what coords is that from? I woudl concur - very very unlikely, that backshell feature is too large, by about 2x.

Doug

Guessing here:


Using the Pi-scaled transient crater, the final crater is a Simple crater with a rim-to-rim diameter of 0.167 x 10² meters.

So 16m?

I got the velocity by using Orbiter, and putting myself into a 40km x 0.007km orbit - and seing what my speed was at 0.007km altitide (wierd seing a shadow just under the vehicle at orbital velocity) - 1.69k/sec was the speed.

Doug

And no O2 for it's Eurojet engine - it would be stuck with just the hybrid motor.

About 27 seconds.

They're like kph - but bigger

And Politics are not being discussed at UMSF.

English is a second language for the C1 team - and to be honest, I think they're doing an awesome job of it so far.

Doug

The shop is open purely by default - it's generated far far less money than it was worth taking the time to do it - I'd have been better off just giving people logos to make their own Cafe Press stuff

Doug

I can't tell you how excited I am by it I was going to post something last night, but wondered if anyone else would

It has a hint of JCB Diesel Max on the nose - a whiff of the unlimited hydroplane in the middle, and..errr..look like a barn at the back but I'm sure that'll evolve.

Doug

I see what they're doing ( I think ) - heading far enough west whilst on good ground so that we can run south toward some etched terrain, running between dunes on the way, instead of hitting any side on.

Doug

That issue's been mentioned already - have a bit of a google for it.

There was going to be : http://www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/c1xs/C1_Launch.htm - however, it was cancelled. (I was going to attend that ) There was an 1000 meeting, but I couldn't make that. I've not seen anything on the media -( apart from very short pieces just showing the launch )

Doug

Sorry - yeah - SW.

Because, if you look at the route finding thread, the challenge of the next few months is to get thru the dune field that extends from about 1km to about 2km south of Endurance. If we can stay on 100m/sol terrain, it's a few months. If we get into dune-land, it's a year or more. So heading SE, to one of a couple of 'out' routes thru that dune field, is the fastest way to make good progress.

Doug

And tweaked the nearside/darkside text as well

Well done BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7679818.stm

Talks about the 'dark' side of the moon ( there is no such thing )
and puts a credit of ISRO on the image - when is should be Doug Ellison / RAL.

The still was lifted from page 1 of this thread as well.

Maybe.

Cough ahem.