[X] My Assistant

[dmuller]

Upon request from someone here at UMSF I have created some quick and dirty Mars Clocks for MER-A,B,PHX at http://www.dmuller.net/mars Trying to verify my results, however, I found that virtually every Mars clock provided on the net gives a different time. So which one is correct?

As for the calculation, the way I understand it, all that is required is:

1. The Earth UTC time of midnight on the landing spot of the spacecraft (i.e. SOL 0, 00:00:00 - or SOL 1 00:00:00 for the MERs)
2. Calculating from that base using that 1 Mars second has 1027.49125 Earth milliseconds

I have not found any references to (1), so I trial&error until my results match one of the more official looking Mars clocks. But ... which one is the correct / appropriate one?

[dmuller]

Yes Tman, you're absolutely right, I modeled it according to the marsrovers.jpl... website. I finally managed to download Mars24 (thus far I always ended up with a broken link) and have updated the script so that the times on the website match the Mars24 (give and take differences between server utc time and your local computer utc time). Unfortunately the web management part of my webhost seems to be down so I cannot upload it yet. Will advise when successful.

I ain't much of a Mars ground ops person, so I dont really know which time calculation method is either accurate or useful, so I let myself be guided by the folks who make use of the clocks "professionally" ... at the moment, well once I can upload it, the script on the website follows Mars24.

BTW Tman, always nice to chat with people from back home. I am originally Swiss, though I moved to Asia / Australia more than a decade ago.

EDIT: Updated version is now uploaded