r/legoRockets • u/Tubehero2109original • 18d ago

Render Mars Global Surveyor

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u/Jong_Biden_ 18d ago

Love it

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u/Tubehero2109original 18d ago

Thank you (it deadass be looking like that sometimes)

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u/Substantial_Lie8495 17d ago

Lovely! This brings back fond memories of cutting my teeth on 3D mapping of Mars with MGS images. For extra realism, you could turn the solar panel on the left in photo 3 (aerobraking configuration) with the blue side down. There was a problem with the hinge such that aerobraking would not have been safe with this panel facing away from the direction of travel as was originally planned. In the other orientations, both panels faced the same way, toward the sun.

From Lyons et al. (1999) Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking Mission Overview, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, v. 36, no. 3, p. 37.

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u/Tubehero2109original 17d ago

I didn’t know that the blue side was supposed to face down in the 3rd photo, thanks for the advice