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I'll print it as a celebration only after Mars 2020 successfully lands. Printing it before might jinx it.
3-D print a piece of Mars for the holidays
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-d-piece-mars-holidays.html
There's a galaxy of gifts out there for space nerds. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin may have just the thing to set your present apart: a model of Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 Rover mission, that you can 3-D print yourself.
The file is free and available for anyone to download.
The replica shows in miniature the amazing landscape that awaits the NASA rover. It includes the sharp-peaked mountains that form the crater's rim, a valley carved by an ancient river, and the river delta's fan of sediments—which the Mars 2020 Rover will sample in search of potential microfossils that would show that the Red Planet was home to life billions of years ago.
"The delta is the main feature of interest, and getting a sense of how it's spread across the landscape is really, really interesting," said Tim Goudge, an assistant professor at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences and the lead advocate for Jezero as the Mars 2020 landing site.
The model can be scaled up or down, but the standard size is about 8 by 7.5 inches, about 100,000 times smaller than the area it represents on Mars. The details of the landforms correspond to those on Mars, but the researchers increased their scaled-down height by five times so their details would be easier to see and feel. Jackson School exhibit designer John Maisano painted the model pictured here to highlight the different landforms.
STL is here:
https://dataverse.tdl.org/api/access/datafile/51080
3-D print a piece of Mars for the holidays
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-d-piece-mars-holidays.html
There's a galaxy of gifts out there for space nerds. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin may have just the thing to set your present apart: a model of Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 Rover mission, that you can 3-D print yourself.
The file is free and available for anyone to download.
The replica shows in miniature the amazing landscape that awaits the NASA rover. It includes the sharp-peaked mountains that form the crater's rim, a valley carved by an ancient river, and the river delta's fan of sediments—which the Mars 2020 Rover will sample in search of potential microfossils that would show that the Red Planet was home to life billions of years ago.
"The delta is the main feature of interest, and getting a sense of how it's spread across the landscape is really, really interesting," said Tim Goudge, an assistant professor at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences and the lead advocate for Jezero as the Mars 2020 landing site.
The model can be scaled up or down, but the standard size is about 8 by 7.5 inches, about 100,000 times smaller than the area it represents on Mars. The details of the landforms correspond to those on Mars, but the researchers increased their scaled-down height by five times so their details would be easier to see and feel. Jackson School exhibit designer John Maisano painted the model pictured here to highlight the different landforms.
STL is here:
https://dataverse.tdl.org/api/access/datafile/51080
