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2. Timekeeping on Mars - Wikipedia

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   The Mars time of noon is 12:00 which is in Earth time 12 hours and 20 minutes after midnight. For the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory missions, the operations teams have worked on "Mars time", with a work schedule synchronized to the local time at the landing site on Mars, rather than the ...

3. List of films set on Mars - Wikipedia

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   Film Year Description 2036 Origin Unknown: 2018 After a mission to Mars results in a mysterious shuttle disappearance, mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson and an AI named ARTI discover a potentially alien cube on Mars that teleports to Earth, leading to revelations about the shuttle disaster, humanity's fate, and Mack's own identity within a cosmic intrigue.

4. Space travel under constant acceleration - Wikipedia

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   For the middle of the journey the ship's speed will be roughly the speed of light, and it will slow down again to zero over a year at the end of the journey. As a rule of thumb, for a constant acceleration at 1 g (Earth gravity), the journey time, as measured on Earth, will be the distance in light years to the destination, plus 1 year. This ...

5. Mars sol - Wikipedia

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   Sol (borrowed from the Latin word for sun) is a solar day on Mars; that is, a Mars-day. A sol is the apparent interval between two successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian (sundial time) as seen by an observer on Mars. It is one of several units for timekeeping on Mars. A sol is slightly longer than an Earth day.

6. Good Night Oppy - Wikipedia

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   The film tells the story of Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, a Mars rover launched in 2003 that was expected to operate for only 90 sols but explored Mars for nearly 15 years. . The film features archival and interview footage with scientists and engineers and re-creations of the rover's treks over the Martian landscape in search of wa

7. MarsDial - Wikipedia

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   MarsDials were placed on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, inscribed with the words "Two worlds, One sun" and the word "Mars" in 22 languages. [1] The MarsDial can function as a gnomon, the stick or other vertical part of a sundial. [2] [3] The length and direction of the shadow cast by the stick allows observers to calculate the time of ...

8. Approaching the Unknown - Wikipedia

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   Stanaforth's water generation apparatus malfunctions during his mission to Mars. Rather than return to Earth as protocol requires, he takes manual control of his spacecraft and continues to Mars. His spacecraft becomes entangled with a nebula and through voiceover we hear Stanaforth ruminate on the nature of matter and space.

9. The Mars Generation (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Mars Generation is a 2017 documentary film directed by Michael Barnett about aspiring teenage astronauts at Space Camp and mankind’s future journey to Mars. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 and was released by Netflix on May 5, 2017.