๐Ÿ‘คingve๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ83๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ84

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I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned the Gyrocompass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocompass

The post mentions manually-set directional gyroscopes, but gyrocompasses are a step ahead of that; on any sufficiently-quickly-rotating planet, a gyrocompass will point you towards the geographic poles by noting the axis of precession of a gyroscope with arbitrary orientation. That's even better than a magnetic compass on Earth, since the magnetic poles do not line up exactly with the geographic poles, and the magnetic is non-uniform anyway (which is why navigational charts include notations of the magnetic deviation in different areas).

๐Ÿ‘คgliese1337๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Celestial navigation plus accurate clocks. I'd think this would be especially good on a planet without clouds (as long as your planet rotates fast enough, so I guess Mercury is out). Anyone know if Mars has any polar stars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation

๐Ÿ‘คGregBuchholz๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Venus too - and this is also why neither have water - no strong magnetic field to hold the heliopause at bay, so the solar wind blows water out of the atmosphere.
๐Ÿ‘คstephengillie๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Does having "no strong magnetic field" mean no Ionosphere and thus no Shortwave Radio?
๐Ÿ‘คhacker234๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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KRET develops stellar navigation system for Russian strategic bombers

http://www.janes.com/article/52661/kret-develops-stellar-nav...

๐Ÿ‘คaaron695๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Already done? More than 40 years ago, but probably still workable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle#Control_a...

๐Ÿ‘คhybridwebtech๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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stellar inertial navigation - It means that as well as an inertial system you track the stars... which are actually visible even during daylight through an automated telecope system... although not through cloud I guess.

Pricey but so is getting to Mars

๐Ÿ‘คadaml_623๐Ÿ•‘10y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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GPS
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