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  Dec 13 2007, 11:45 AM
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As soon as I uncovered the Martin Marietta studies for follow up Viking landers launched during the 1979 launch opportunity over at the NTRS, I've started wondering just how far into the planning process did they go?
Did they get as far as picking landing sites? And if so what were the planned targets? |
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Jan 19 2008, 12:57 AM
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Just in case it's available online somewhere, the Viking rover document Phil Stooke referred to is NASA CR-140391, titled "Viking Rover Studies" by Harold Masursky, J. M. Boyce, and A. L. Dial. I was lucky enough to randomly obtain a copy of the preliminary version, which runs 39 pages. A fun little report.
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Jan 29 2008, 07:27 PM
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QUOTE (monitorlizard @ Jan 19 2008, 01:57 AM)  Just in case it's available online somewhere, the Viking rover document Phil Stooke referred to is NASA CR-140391, titled "Viking Rover Studies" by Harold Masursky, J. M. Boyce, and A. L. Dial. I was lucky enough to randomly obtain a copy of the preliminary version, which runs 39 pages. A fun little report.  here is the document :
CR_140391_Viking_Rover_Studies_Reduc.pdf ( 2.51MB )
Number of downloads: 161The science thoughts and envisioned landing sites are very nice with the little knowledge of Mars they had then : the rover would have done really great science ! Enjoy
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gndonald Viking 79 - Where did they plan to land? Dec 13 2007, 11:45 AM
vikingmars QUOTE (gndonald @ Dec 13 2007, 01:45 PM) ... Dec 16 2007, 01:30 PM Phil Stooke Olivier, do you know where the C1, C2 discussion m... Dec 16 2007, 05:19 PM
vikingmars [quote name='Phil Stooke' date='Dec 16... Dec 16 2007, 07:41 PM nprev Nice, VM!
Yeah, I've wondered a few tim... Dec 16 2007, 08:25 PM JRehling If a Viking had landed within sight of a crater, t... Dec 25 2007, 05:11 AM scalbers I noticed a photo of the Viking 3 lander body abou... Dec 24 2007, 10:39 PM nprev ...at the insistence of Prof. Tillman's daught... Dec 24 2007, 11:50 PM nprev The V2 frost pics were quite striking indeed, alth... Dec 25 2007, 03:44 PM vikingmars QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 25 2007, 04:44 PM) The... Dec 26 2007, 11:12 AM tedstryk It would be nice if it does get some frosty views ... Dec 30 2007, 07:22 PM Phil Stooke Going back to the original topic - It's not re... Dec 26 2007, 08:07 PM |
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