๐คingve๐10y๐ผ83๐จ๏ธ84
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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?
๐คGregBuchholz๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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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.
๐คstephengillie๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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Does having "no strong magnetic field" mean no Ionosphere and thus no Shortwave Radio?
๐คhacker234๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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KRET develops stellar navigation system for Russian strategic bombers
http://www.janes.com/article/52661/kret-develops-stellar-nav...
๐คaaron695๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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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...
๐คhybridwebtech๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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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
๐คadaml_623๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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GPS
๐คJoeAltmaier๐10y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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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).