There is a completely different system for calculating years on the Red Planet, where it takes 1 year and 2 Earth years.
NASA said Mars fans can already drink New Year’s champagne because New Year’s on Mars arrived on December 26, Space writes.
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The fact that the new year has arrived on Mars was announced by NASA shortly after the Perseverance rover performed an important event on another planet for the first time in history. It has already begun to build a “repository” of titanium test tubes that store Martian rock samples.
As already written Focus, the spacecraft left the second container with the sample on the surface of the Red Planet in the Lake Lake crater, and this record-breaking sample – the longest sample the rover has ever managed to collect. These titanium test tubes could be delivered to Earth as early as the next decade. More about this task Focus He also wrote.
NASA announced on Twitter that they started celebrating the new year on Mars before it came to Earth for a reason.
The first flyby of the Red Planet was made by the Mariner 4 spacecraft on July 14, 1965, but scientists are starting to count the start of the new year on Mars from the moment the planet reached the spring northern equinox in 1955. The NASA report said it was necessary to pick a random point on Mars to start the chronology because scientists needed such a system. Calculating Martian years helps scientists keep track of long-term observations, such as weather data that spacecraft have collected over decades of exploration on Mars.
Because Mars is farther from the Sun than Earth, it takes about twice as long for the planet to complete a full orbit around our star. Thus, a year on Mars lasts 687 days, and meanwhile, the last time NASA celebrated New Year’s on the Red Planet, the Perseverance rover had not yet landed.
This device landed in the Lake Lake crater on February 18, 2021, which means it has been on Mars for almost 1 Martian year. In addition to the fact that the rover has begun building a warehouse of titanium sample tubes, its companion Mars helicopter Ingenuity has already made 37 flights over the planet’s surface. As already written Focus this plane broke the record for the highest flight altitude on Mars.
There are several spacecraft now looking for signs of potential life on the Red Planet, and as early as the 2030s we may know if this life once existed on this desert and cold planet.
Also NASA showed, as I already wrote Focus, What does winter look like on Mars and what kind of ice and snow can you find there.
Source: Focus
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