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The corresponding values for Earth are currently 23 h 56 m 4.0916 s and 24 h 00 m 00.002 s, respectively, which yields a conversion factor of 1.027 491 2517 Earth days/sol: thus, Mars's solar day is only about 2.75% longer than Earth's; approximately 73 sols pass for every 75 Earth days.
(The Martian year lasts 687 days, roughly 2 Earth years.) ... Season Mars' Sols Earth Days Northern spring, southern autumn: 193.30: 92.764 Northern summer, southern ...
A Martian year is approximately 668.6 sols, equivalent to approximately 687 Earth days [1] or 1.88 Earth years. The sol was adopted in 1976 during the Viking Lander missions and is a measure of time mainly used by NASA when, for example, scheduling the use of a Mars rover .
The basic time periods from which the calendar is constructed are the Martian solar day (sometimes called a sol) and the Martian vernal equinox year.The sol is 39 minutes 35.244 seconds longer than the Terrestrial solar day, and the Martian vernal equinox year is 668.5907 sols in length (which corresponds to 686.9711 days on Earth).
Mars Year 1 is the first year of Martian timekeeping standard developed by Clancy et al. [1] ... L s 263 (Sol 505): Earth is closest to Mars (10 September 1956). [10]
In the year 2033, a crew of six astronauts launch from Florida on a journey to be the first people to set foot on Mars. During the descent into the Martian atmosphere, there is a malfunction with their spacecraft, the Daedalus. They land 75.3 kilometers away from their planned habitat. On Earth, their progress is being monitored.
Season 1 Episode 25: Directed by: ... Byron Morrow as First Martian; ... residence — an interior living space furnished precisely in the same manner as one on Earth ...
2.1 Season 1 (2001–2002) 2.2 Season 2 ... As alien invaders who were accidentally awakened on Mars begin to take over the Earth, ... Two years later, ...