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Pre-Noachian: the interval from the accretion and differentiation of the planet about 4.5 billion years ago to the formation of the Hellas impact basin, between 4.1 and 3.8 Gya. [14] Most of the geologic record of this interval has been erased by subsequent erosion and high impact rates.
A 2023 study shows evidence, based on the orbital inclination of Deimos (a small moon of Mars), that Mars may once have had a ring system 3.5 billion years to 4 billion years ago. [32] This ring system may have been formed from a moon, 20 times more massive than Phobos, orbiting Mars billions of years ago; and Phobos would be a remnant of that ...
Notes (Mars) Eonothem: Eon: not used for Mars Erathem: Era: not used for Mars System: Period: 3 total; 10 8 to 10 9 years in length Series: Epoch: 8 total; 10 7 to 10 8 years in length Stage: Age: not used for Mars Chronozone: Chron: smaller than an age/stage; not used by the ICS timescale
The geologic time scale is a way of representing deep time based on events that have occurred throughout Earth's history, a time span of about 4.54 ± 0.05 Ga (4.54 billion years). [3] It chronologically organises strata, and subsequently time, by observing fundamental changes in stratigraphy that correspond to major geological or ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Scientific projections regarding the far future Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see List of numbers and List of years. Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant While the future cannot be predicted with certainty ...
The lunar cratering record suggests that the rate of impacts in the Inner Solar System 4000 million years ago was 500 times higher than today. [44] During the Noachian, about one 100-km diameter crater formed on Mars every million years, [ 3 ] with the rate of smaller impacts exponentially higher.
The pattern of seven-day weeks repeats over a two-year cycle, i.e., the calendar year always begins on a Sunday in odd-numbered years, thus effecting a perpetual calendar for Mars. [ 25 ] Whereas previous proposals for a Martian calendar had not included an epoch, American astronomer I. M. Levitt developed a more complete system in 1954.
The Clancy Mars year is reckoned from one Martian northward equinox to the next (L s = 0°), and specific dates within a given year are expressed in L s. The Clancy Mars year count is approximately equal to the Darian year count minus 183. The Allison Mars sol date epoch equates to L s = 276.6° in a year that is undefined in the Clancy Mars ...