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"Up in the Air" is a song recorded by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, featured on their fourth studio album, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013). Written by lead vocalist Jared Leto , who also produced the song with Steve Lillywhite , "Up in the Air" is an introspective and passionate track reflecting upon human consciousness.
On both Earth and Mars, these two precessions are in opposite directions, and therefore add, to make the precession cycle between the tropical and anomalistic years 21,000 years on Earth and 29,700 Martian years (55,900 Earth years) on Mars. As on Earth, the period of rotation of Mars (the length of its day) is slowing down.
Mars comes closer to Earth more than any other planet save Venus at its nearest—56 million km is the closest distance between Mars and Earth, whereas the closest Venus comes to Earth is 40 million km. Mars comes closest to Earth every other year, around the time of its opposition, when Earth is sweeping between the Sun and Mars. Extra-close ...
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A simulation of a 4-satellite constellation in areostationary orbit . An areostationary orbit, areosynchronous equatorial orbit (AEO), or Mars geostationary orbit is a circular areosynchronous orbit (ASO) approximately 17,032 km (10,583 mi) in altitude above the Mars equator and following the direction of Mars's rotation.
It will be visible in the constellation Gemini and will appear in the eastern part of the sky as night falls shortly after sunset (around 3:00 UTC per EarthSky.org, AKA 10 p.m. EST) and then be in ...
While peering up at the hazy Martian sky, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted one of Mars' irregularly-shaped moons.The moon, Deimos, is relatively small at 7.5 miles wide, so it appears as ...
It orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. As a result, from the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes or less, and set in the east, twice each Martian day .