Jochem Huhmann wrote:


And then on to Mars:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/model...inggemini.html
Where amazingly, you don't even need backpacks to breathe...which makes
one wonder what the helmets are for.


Probably for head-protection when they fall while climbing up that thing.


It looks like he's setting up a portable barbecue grill at the base of
the landing leg.
Probably to cook those sausage plants CDR Christopher Draper found in
"Robinson Crusoe On Mars".
I'd like to have a rope tied on me for the climb down the side, low Mars
gravity or not.
Note that the wings and vertical fins on the lander have no control
surfaces on them, and that there are no control thrusters on the thing's
exterior.
We now know what's in the interior of the spacecraft's aft
section...huge gyroscopes. ;-)

Pat