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The average duration of the day-night cycle on Mars — i.e., a Martian day — is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds, [3] equivalent to 1.02749125 Earth days. [4] The sidereal rotational period of Mars—its rotation compared to the fixed stars—is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22.66 seconds. [4]
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 Earth day. This results in the crew's schedule sliding approximately 40 minutes later in Earth ...
Artemis X is planned to launch in 2035. According to NASA, this mission will feature the delivery of additional lunar surface logistics, and will also include astronauts staying on the moon long-term. The mission is expected to last up to 180 days. [20]
For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf of NASA.
Manfred Memorial Moon Mission: 23 October 2014: Long March 3C: LuxSpace: Flyby / Impactor (post mission) Success Demonstration of re-entry capsule for Chang'e 5 sample-return mission at lunar return velocity. Orbiter may still be in lunar orbit. Manfred Memorial Moon Mission attached to third stage of CZ-3C used to launch Chang'e 5-T1.
Regardless, a basic set of guidelines for extraterrestrial sample return has been laid out depending on the source of sample (e.g. asteroid, Moon, Mars surface, etc.) [77] At the dawn of the 21st century, NASA crafted four potential pathways to Mars human missions, [78] of which three included a Mars sample return as a prerequisite to human ...
A mission could have a period of 365 days in a year, a few weeks each month, [6] a few weeks every 26 months (e.g. Mars launch periods), [7] or a short period time that won't be repeated. A launch window indicates the time frame on a given day within the launch period that the rocket can launch to reach its intended orbit.
NASA is still aiming for human missions to Mars in the 2030s, though Earth independence could take decades longer. [151] On August 28, 2015, NASA funded a year-long simulation to study the effects of a year-long Mars mission on six scientists.