Am I the only one who looks at those amazing images and searches for a good spot to spin a top?
By the way, with lower gravity a top would spin longer before falling. Also it will provide more time in the air to catch the top on a trick. But slower precession will require some adjustments. Texture is young enough that he could try one day
Pretty sure you'd have to pay a big extra baggage fee for Figaro.
Wouldn't it be fun to turn down the gravity in a physically correct top simulator?
Though precession rates and critical speeds would decrease, nutation rates wouldn't change -- at least not directly.
The von Karman aerodynamic braking torque is proportional to air density and the square root of the air's kinematic viscosity. The viscosity is ~100 times
larger on Mars than on Earth, while the density is ~100 times
smaller.
Net effect: The von Karman torque on Mars would be ~10% that on Earth.
I say we go to Mars ASAP!