simcoder t1_ixfue7v wrote
Reply to comment by TrenchTingz in Realistically speaking When do you think we will land humans on Mars? by EnaGrimm
Hmmm. OK. That was a pretty broad statement and probably doesn't hold up across the board. Fair enough.
I guess the issue to me is that Starship is basically 5 times taller than it is wide (iirc). That just seems fairly prone to tipping over while landing on perfectly flat ground (with the right adverse conditions). And in "all terrain" conditions, it just seems like you be lucky if it didn't tip over.
Maybe I'm over thinking it. But it seems like ideally you'd want the inverse of that ratio for an "all terrain" lander. IE one that is wider than it is taller. So pretty much no matter what type of slope you land on, you can be fairly confident that the thing will remain upright.
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