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Munus circumnavigates Minmus

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Mind Snack Aerospace persuade Munus to take their new ultra long duration moon buggy on a test drive around Minmus...

The nine and a half hour drive is compressed into one and a half minutes, for your appraisal & viewing pleasure:

Turns out the added inertia of bringing nearly 4 tonnes too much methalox may not have been a completely bad thing. Though starting off so close to Minmus' eastern terminator very nearly was. Once I got up into the highlands my average speed dropped to around or below 10 m/s. Which, given the difference between my surface speed and orbital speed , is about the rate at which Minmus turns. So for much of the journey I was racing to stay in sunlight. Only when I got to the Great and Greater Flats (?) was i able to sustain about 30 to 40+ m/s and so get Kerbol higher in the sky for the latter stages of the trip.

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