Determination of the landing point and orientation of a spacecraft on Mars
Formulas are presented to calculate the landing point of a spacecraft on Mars. The areographic latitude is taken as the angle between a plumb line at the landing point and the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of Mars relative to the sun. The ephemeral time of the upper culmination of the...
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1974
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| Online Access: | http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19750002917 |