I have the Hotwheel Pathfinder model - and bored one lunchtime, I thought it needed some work. The heatshield is white plastic - but I knew that was wrong - so I went in to the kitchen and...





Doug

I made a model of Pathfinder shortly after it landed, it's nearly 7 years old now and a bit dusty. I made it based on pictures of the lander in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now magazines.

Did anyone see that smaller model they had of the MER rovers at a few of the early press briefings? Would love one of those

That's very cute - I have Pathfinder blueprints on my wall ( ebay ) and I made a Card Delta II rocket a while back -



And of course, there's the rest of the pathfinder toy stuff - which is always a bit of fun I think the scale might be a bit off though





Piccies...

Oh crap - I should never have started doing this

Doug

COOL lol

Found some paper models here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/scalemodels/

and here, some of the links mightnot work now though http://www.freepapertoys.com/pt-space.html

Here's a newsday article and some diagrams how to build models of the rovers:

http://www.newsday.com/news/education/sbp/...y-sbp-headlines

Superb self-made models if You ask me ...
Code 3 model offered a superb MER model at the end of 2003, but those are soldout nowadays!
Realspace models has a superb Viking Orbiter & Lander scale model at US $ 150.00:

http://www.realspacemodels.com/cgi-bin/che...ENEXT40:50:10++

Best regards,
Philip

I'm having Gumby flashbacks!

The images got me thinking: Would it be useful and practical to drop a whole bunch of little rovers all over Mars? Rather than pray in the future that a few big huge ones make it and work?