Seb, post: 379479, member: 7509 wrote: http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/resources/mars-posters-explorers-wanted/?linkId=25534067
So, is this just a request for a quote? I'll bet if NASA calls around they will be able to find a surveying firm that can produce surveys of Mars right from the Houston office and it shouldn't cost any more than any other survey.
Now that you mention it.....
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/3/1/11140786/mars-hand-drawn-map-eleanor-lutz
Seb, post: 379484, member: 7509 wrote: Now that you mention it.....
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/3/1/11140786/mars-hand-drawn-map-eleanor-lutz
Okay, but I'll bet the UPDATE and RECERTIFICATION will cost you at least three hundred.
Is Mars a recording planet?
I hate to see the Mobilization Cost of the quote.
Do you hold the original position of the rovers, or do you restake them in the intended position?
No atmospheric correction to worry about
Kent McMillan, post: 379488, member: 3 wrote: Okay, but I'll bet the UPDATE and RECERTIFICATION will cost you at least three hundred.
All Points Precision Surveying would like to bid $200 for a cloth tape survey off the fences.
I believe the wait time for utility locates is REALLY a long time up there....
C Billingsley, post: 379499, member: 1965 wrote: No atmospheric correction to worry about
Of course there would be a atmospheric correction.
Mars has approx. 96 % carbon dioxide, 1.9 % argon, 1.9 % nitrogen, 0.146 % oxygen, o.o557 % carbon monoxide (plus a trace of several other gases).
Temperature on Mars: it can reach 70 F at the equator and minus 100 at night. Pressure; average of 6 mbar. The correction formula that you use for your specific EDMI on Earth would not work on Mars
Earth has approx. 78 % nitrogen, 20.95 % oxygen, 0.93 % argon and 0.039& carbon dioxide. You know the temp. and pressure here on Earth as you
take it each time you make a EDMI measurement, wet and dry bulb readings if you do geodetic work.
You would need to put the gases of Mars in a special interferometer and determine a correction formula to use.
JOHN NOLTON
But the total air pressure on Mars is so small, about 0.6% of Earth's mean sea level pressure, that the correction would be negligible for most purposes. It's nearly a vacuum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
I should have said the temperature correction would be negligible. With almost no pressure, the basic speed of light would apply rather than the nominal speed in atmostphere that earth instruments are built to use as "0 ppm".
Does anyone know who sits on the Mars Board of Licensure? I have some really stupid questions to ask...
thebionicman, post: 379564, member: 8136 wrote: Does anyone know who sits on the Mars Board of Licensure? I have some really stupid questions to ask...
I still haven't gotten approval on my comity application. Their office never seems to answer the phone either.
