little math problem October 2018

[Dave Shaffer]

(10-20-2018 11:49 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:  Then this problem is more about Schrödinger's rovers than navigation.

I maintain that celestial navigation would be sufficient for locating the planet's equator.

Not if you can't see the sky (cloud covered, like Venus) and the planet is not rotating (unlikely, but conceivable, and similar to Venus as well)

The statement of the problem in its broadest sense implies little if any a priori knowledge about conditions on the planet.