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Mars Seasons (Earth equivalent dates), Is this right so?
dmuller
post Feb 2 2009, 01:50 PM
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I tried to include some information on the current season of Mars into my realtime simulations (Mars clocks). Now one way of doing so that I can think of (but haven't really seen it around) is to calculate Earth equivalent dates for Mars, such that summer solstices are always on the "21-Jun" etc. Naturally these "days" (based on orbit around Sun rather than rotation of Mars) last about twice as long as on Earth (more precisely: 686.9 / 365.25 times as long). Using the only solstice I know (summer solstice 25 Jun 2008 ... Phoenix was there), this approach says that it would be 23 October on Mars now. Does that make sense? Is that useful?


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post Feb 5 2009, 01:39 AM
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Ah never too old to learn something new rolleyes.gif I should be able to vary the length of the seasons to match Emily's website ... in due course ...


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- dmuller   Mars Seasons (Earth equivalent dates)   Feb 2 2009, 01:50 PM
- - helvick   The general idea makes sense to me and I think it ...   Feb 2 2009, 02:23 PM
- - elakdawalla   Also, Mars' elliptical orbit means that some s...   Feb 5 2009, 12:49 AM
|- - mwolff   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 4 2009, 06:49 PM...   Feb 13 2009, 02:45 PM
- - dmuller   Ah never too old to learn something new I should...   Feb 5 2009, 01:39 AM

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