Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-22 07:07:35

Today on Mars: 0036/01/14 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. Skip Day will be reset per jussieu.fr web site

Today on Earth: 2021/02/22 Monday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 007.1 Sol Number: 14 Change in degrees is +.5 <<== Skip day reset to match jussieu.fr web site
Previous SL: 006.6 Previous Sol: 13

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,703,214 km Difference is +179217 <= 7315 km/hour at 7.9 on 02/22 (time:7:54)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,523,997 km Difference is +165992 <= 7345 km/hour at 7.4 on 02/21 (time:7:42)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,358,005 km Difference is +187308 <= 7374 km/hour at 8.8 on 02/20 (time:8:48)

Next Up: A bright star from HIP series: HIP 15996 Magnitude 8.66 just above path Day 0 just ahead of Mars - good for one day
Star TYC 1241-83-1 Magnitude 11.49 above path Day 1 About 18 hours past - last day for 83
Galaxy PGC 1612067 RA 3h 23m 19.5s below path Day 2 Just visible at the West edge of the view - definitely last day for 1612067

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 014 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 014 is Saturday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-23 07:32:10

Today on Mars: 0036/01/15 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. Skip Day will be reset per jussieu.fr web site

Today on Earth: 2021/02/23 Tuesday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 007.5 Sol Number: 15 Change in degrees is +.4 <<== progress along the ellipse is slowing
Previous SL: 007.1 Previous Sol: 14

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,875,848 km Difference is +172634 <= 7284 km/hour at 7.6 on 02/23 (time:7:36)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,703,214 km Difference is +179217 <= 7315 km/hour at 7.9 on 02/22 (time:7:54)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,523,997 km Difference is +165992 <= 7345 km/hour at 7.4 on 02/21 (time:7:42)

Next up: Star TYC 1242-124-1 Magnitude 9.72 In path Day 0 ahead of Mars about 16 hours
Note bright star HIP 16143 is above and abreast of Mars, but it is likely to not be in the view tomorrow

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 015 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 015 is Sunday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-24 06:57:18

Today on Mars: 0036/01/16 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/02/24 Wednesday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 008.0 Sol Number: 16 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 007.5 Previous Sol: 14

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,049,204 km Difference is +173356 <= 7253 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/24 (time:7:30)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,875,848 km Difference is +172634 <= 7284 km/hour at 7.6 on 02/23 (time:7:36)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,703,214 km Difference is +179217 <= 7315 km/hour at 7.9 on 02/22 (time:7:54)

Next up: Star TYC 1242-539-1 Magnitude 10.07 just below path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead
Next up: Star TYC 1242-525-1 Magnitude 11.06 in path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
Star TYC 1242-124-1 Magnitude 9.72 In path Day 1 Behind about 6 hours - last day for 124

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 016 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 016 is Monday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-25 06:39:41

Today on Mars: 0036/01/17 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/02/25 Thursday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 008.5 Sol Number: 17 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 008.0 Previous Sol: 16

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,222,521 km Difference is +173317 <= 7222 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/25 (time:7:30)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,049,204 km Difference is +173356 <= 7253 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/24 (time:7:30)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 235,875,848 km Difference is +172634 <= 7284 km/hour at 7.6 on 02/23 (time:7:36)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1635901 RA 3h 34m 46.4s just above path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Star TYC 1242-539-1 Magnitude 10.07 just below path Day 1 Just past Mars - last day for 539
Star TYC 1242-525-1 Magnitude 11.06 in path Day 1 about 10 hours behind - last day for 525

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 017 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 017 is Tuesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-26 06:37:49

Today on Mars: 0036/01/18 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/02/26 Friday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 009.0 Sol Number: 18 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 008.5 Previous Sol: 17

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,391,479 km Difference is +168958 <= 7190 km/hour at 7.0 on 02/26 (time:7:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,222,521 km Difference is +173317 <= 7222 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/25 (time:7:30)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,049,204 km Difference is +173356 <= 7253 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/24 (time:7:30)

Next up:Star TYC 1246-1050-1 Magnitude 10.77 below path Day 0 Ahead about 4 hours - likely one day for 1050
Galaxy PGC 1635901 RA 3h 34m 46.4s just above path Day 1 Just past Mars (about 4 hours ) - likely last day for 1635901
Star TYC 1242-539-1 Magnitude 10.07 just below path Day 2 ... still visible at the West edge of the view - definitely the last day for 539

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 018 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 018 is Wednesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-27 07:36:15

Today on Mars: 0036/01/19 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/02/27 Saturday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 009.5 Sol Number: 19 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 009.0 Previous Sol: 18

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,570,404 km Difference is +178925 <= 7157 km/hour at 8.0 on 02/27 (time:8:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,391,479 km Difference is +168958 <= 7190 km/hour at 7.0 on 02/26 (time:7:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,222,521 km Difference is +173317 <= 7222 km/hour at 7.5 on 02/25 (time:7:30)

Next up: A boomer: HIP 17026 Magnitude 6.48 just below path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
TYC 1246-1050-1 Magnitude 10.77 below path Day Day 1 near edge of view - last day for 1050

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 019 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 019 is Thursday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-02-28 08:06:55

Today on Mars: 0036/01/20 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/02/28 Sunday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 010.0 Sol Number: 20 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 009.5 Previous Sol: 19

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,748,468 km Difference is +178064 <= 7123 km/hour at 9.0 on 02/28 (time:9:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,570,404 km Difference is +178925 <= 7157 km/hour at 8.0 on 02/27 (time:8:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,391,479 km Difference is +168958 <= 7190 km/hour at 7.0 on 02/26 (time:7:00)

Next up: Galaxy: PGC 1642353 RA 3h 41m 47.6s below path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - good for one day for sure
A boomer: HIP 17026 Magnitude 6.48 just below path Day 1 about 12 hours past ... last day for 17026 ... thanks for showing up to enliven the scene!

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 11 and 12 minutes. Communications delay would be 20+ minutes round trip. [11:198,000,000] [12:216,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 020 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 020 is Friday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

SpaceNut · 2021-02-28 09:54:28

Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-01 07:12:04

Today on Mars: 0036/01/21 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/01 Monday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 010.5 Sol Number: 21 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 010.0 Previous Sol: 20

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,906,560 km Difference is +158092 <= 7089 km/hour at 7.3 on 03/01 (time:7:18)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,748,468 km Difference is +178064 <= 7123 km/hour at 9.0 on 02/28 (time:9:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,570,404 km Difference is +178925 <= 7157 km/hour at 8.0 on 02/27 (time:8:00)

Next up: a small Boomer: HIP 17340 RA 3h 42m 41.2s Magnitude 7.84 Day 0 above Mars and about 4 hours ahead ... only good for one day
Galaxy: PGC 1642353 RA 3h 41m 47.6s below path Day 1 about 6 hours behind - last day for 1642353

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 021 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 021 is Saturday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars at Insight location, see:
***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-02 08:17:08

Today on Mars: 0036/01/22 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/02 Tuesday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 010.9 Sol Number: 22 Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL: 010.5 Previous Sol: 21

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 237,087,896 km Difference is +181336 <= 7056 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/02 (time:9:00)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,906,560 km Difference is +158092 <= 7089 km/hour at 7.3 on 03/01 (time:7:18)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,748,468 km Difference is +178064 <= 7123 km/hour at 9.0 on 02/28 (time:9:00)

Next up: Star TYC 1260-812-1 Magnitude 11.76 in path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead - may be good for two days
Next up: Several candidates today! Galaxy PGC 1649756 RA 3h 46m 57.1s in path Day 0 ahead about 20 hours - may be good for two days

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 022 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 022 is Sunday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-03 07:07:27

Today on Mars: 0036/01/23 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/03 Wednesday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 011.4 Sol Number: 23 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 010.9 Previous Sol: 22

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,243,754 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is +155858 <= 7021 km/hour at 7.2 on 03/03 (time:7:12)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,906,560 km Difference is +158092 <= 7089 km/hour at 7.3 on 03/01 (time:7:18)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,748,468 km Difference is +178064 <= 7123 km/hour at 9.0 on 02/28 (time:9:00)

Next up: Star TYC 1260-305-1 Magnitude 11.02 just above path Day 0 at least 24 hours ahead. May be good for two days.
Star TYC 1260-812-1 Magnitude 11.76 in path Day 1 Just past Mars - unlikely to be in view tomorrow
Galaxy PGC 1649756 RA 3h 46m 57.1s in path Day 1 About 5 hours behind - last day for 756

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 023 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 023 is Monday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-04 08:06:28

Today on Mars: 0036/01/24 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/04 Thursday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 011.9 Sol Number: 24 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 011.4 Previous Sol: 23

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,423,302 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +179548 <= 6986 km/hour at 8.9 on 03/04 (time:8:54)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,243,754 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is +155858 <= 7021 km/hour at 7.2 on 03/03 (time:7:12)
Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,906,560 km Difference is +158092 <= 7089 km/hour at 7.3 on 03/01 (time:7:18)

Next up: Star TYC 1260-271-1 Magnitude 12.08 Above path Day 0 ahead about 15 hours - may be good for two days
Star TYC 1260-305-1 Magnitude 11.02 just above path Day 1 Right at Mars - likely good for another day!
Star TYC 1260-812-1 Magnitude 11.76 in path Day 2 - still visible but at the edge of the screen - definitely the last day for 812
Galaxy PGC 1649756 RA 3h 46m 57.1s in path Day 1 About 5 hours behind - last day for 756

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 024 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 024 is Tuesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-05 06:53:00

Today on Mars: 0036/01/25 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/05 Friday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 012.4 Sol Number: 25 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 011.9 Previous Sol: 24

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,581,781 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +158479 <= 6951 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/05 (time:7:42)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,423,302 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +179548 <= 6986 km/hour at 8.9 on 03/04 (time:8:54)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,243,754 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is +155858 <= 7021 km/hour at 7.2 on 03/03 (time:7:12)

Distance of Mars from the Sun is given by theskylive.com as: 236,906,560 km Difference is +158092 <= 7089 km/hour at 7.3 on 03/01 (time:7:18)

Next up: Star TYC 1261-811-1 Magnitude 11.80 just above path Day 0 About 20 hours ahead - may be good for two days
Next up: Galaxy PGC 1657364 just above path Day 0 ahead aout 15 hours - may be good for two days
Star TYC 1260-271-1 Magnitude 12.08 Above path Day 1 About 10 hours behind - last day for 271

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 025 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 025 is Wednesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-06 09:23:33

Today on Mars: 0036/01/26 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/06 Saturday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 012.9 Sol Number: 26 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 012.4 Previous Sol: 25

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,763,627 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +181845 <= 6914 km/hour at 10.0 on 03/06 (time:10:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,581,781 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +158479 <= 6951 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/05 (time:7:42)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,423,302 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +179548 <= 6986 km/hour at 8.9 on 03/04 (time:8:54)

Next Up: Star TYC 1261-880-1 Magnitude 10:55 in path Day 0 about 11 hours ahead
Star TYC 1261-811-1 Magnitude 11.80 just above path Day 1 - Can't find 811 today
Galaxy PGC 1657364 just above path Day 1 About 12 hours past Mars - last day for 364

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 026 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 026 is Thursday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-07 06:59:05

Today on Mars: 0036/01/27 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/03/07 Sunday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 013.4 Sol Number: 27 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 012.9 Previous Sol: 26

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,910,855 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +147229 <= 6880 km/hour at 7.4 on 03/07 (time:7:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,763,627 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +181845 <= 6914 km/hour at 10.0 on 03/06 (time:10:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,581,781 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +158479 <= 6951 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/05 (time:7:42)

Next up: Star TYC 1261-622-1 Magnitude 12.86 below path Day 0 ahead about 20 hours ... might be good for two days
Next up: Star TYC 1261 -794-1 Magnitude 11.79 above path Day 0 about 14 hours ahead
Star TYC 1261-880-1 Magnitude 10:55 in path Day 1 about 11 hours behind ... last day for 880

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 027 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 027 is Friday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-08 08:10:03

Today on Mars: 0036/01/28 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/08 Monday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 013.8 Sol Number: 28 Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL: 013.4 Previous Sol: 27

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,086,023 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +175168 <= 6843 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/08 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,910,855 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +147229 <= 6880 km/hour at 7.4 on 03/07 (time:7:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,763,627 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +181845 <= 6914 km/hour at 10.0 on 03/06 (time:10:00)

Next up: Star TYC 1262-460-1 Magnitude 12.84 Day 0 about 18 hours ahead
Next up: Galaxy PGC 1663826 in path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
Star TYC 1261-622-1 Magnitude 12.86 below path Day 1 - About 5 hours behind - last day for 622
Star TYC 1261 -794-1 Magnitude 11.79 above path Day 1 about 11 hours behind - last day for 794

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 028 is in Month 01 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 01 extends from Sol 001 through 028. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 028 is Saturday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 1 of 24: First month of Quarter 1 and first month of Mars Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-09 07:45:46

Today on Mars: 0036/02/01 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/09 Tuesday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 014.3 Sol Number: 29 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 013.8 Previous Sol: 28

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,241,791 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +155768 <= 6802 km/hour at 7.9 on 03/09 (time:7:54)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,086,023 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +175168 <= 6843 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/08 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,910,855 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +147229 <= 6880 km/hour at 7.4 on 03/07 (time:7:24)

Next up: Star TYC 1262-116-1 Magnitude 9.99 above path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Next up: There's a boomer at the leading edge of the view, but details are not available ... below path and about 18 hours ahead
Star TYC 1262-460-1 Magnitude 12.84 Day 1 about 6 hours behind - last day for 460
Galaxy PGC 1663826 in path Day 1 About 11 hours behind - last day for 16763826

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 029 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 029 is Sunday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

The post for Monday was prepared but not posted. It would have been for Sol 30 (th)

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-11 08:03:22

Today on Mars: 0036/02/03 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/11 Thursday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 015.3 Sol Number: 31 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 014.8 Previous Sol: 30

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,566,421 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149324 <= 6726 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/11 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,417,097 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +175306 <= 6769 km/hour at 9.8 on 03/10 (time:9:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,241,791 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is +155768 <= 6802 km/hour at 7.9 on 03/09 (time:7:54)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1673311 RA 4h 6m 520s Far above path Day 0 about 1 hour ahead
Next up: Slim pickings! Only one star and one galaxy are available - Star TYC 1263-832-1 Magnitude 11.96 far below path Day 0 11 hours ahead
Star TYC 1262-85-1 Magnitude 10.84 Just above path Day 1 about 8 hours behind - likely last day for 85
Boomer HIP 19038 Magnitude 4.24 ... below path Day 2 Just visible at edge of view behind Mars ... Definitely the last day for 19038

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 031 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 031 is Tuesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-12 06:13:32

Today on Mars: 0036/02/04 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/12 Friday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 015.7 Sol Number: 32 Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL: 015.3 Previous Sol: 31

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,716,349 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149928 <= 6693 km/hour at 6.4 on 03/12 (time:6:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,566,421 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149324 <= 6726 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/11 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,417,097 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +175306 <= 6769 km/hour at 9.8 on 03/10 (time:9:48)

Next up: Slim pickings again ... Galaxy PGC 1674146 RA 4h 9m 41.1s Well above path Day 0 about 5 hours ahead - may last one day
There sure are a ** lot ** of stars not yet cataloged!
Star TYC 1263-832-1 Magnitude 11.96 far below path Day 1 about 11 hours behind ... last day for 832

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 032 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 032 is Wednesday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-13 07:22:36

Today on Mars: 0036/02/05 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/13 Saturday (Earth Date) Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 016.2 Sol Number: 33 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 015.7 Previous Sol: 32

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,887,361 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +171012 <= 6654 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/13 (time:8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,716,349 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149928 <= 6693 km/hour at 6.4 on 03/12 (time:6:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,566,421 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149324 <= 6726 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/11 (time:8:00)

Next up: a trio: Star TYC 1815-1124-1 Magnitude 9.35 just above path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Star HIP 19745 Magnitude 8.21 just below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Star TYC 1815-797-1 Magnitude 12.16 just above path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 033 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 033 is Thursday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

SpaceNut · 2021-03-13 10:13:28

I am sadden that I have not heard back from those that could do more from this topics content to create means for the society to generate funding for larger projects.
Thank you for its continued input into it and we will keep our fingers crossed that something will come from it in time.

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-14 07:02:38

Today on Mars: 0036/02/06 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/14 Sunday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 016.7 Sol Number: 34 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 016.2 Previous Sol: 33

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,042,791 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +155430 <= 6614 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/14 (time:DST)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,887,361 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +171012 <= 6654 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/13 (time:8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,716,349 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +149928 <= 6693 km/hour at 6.4 on 03/12 (time:6:24)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1674531 RA 4h 16m 01.7s Below path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Star TYC 1815-1124-1 Magnitude 9.35 just above path Day 1 about 8 hours behind
Star HIP 19745 Magnitude 8.21 just below path Day 1 Just above path about 5 hours behind
Star TYC 1815-797-1 Magnitude 12.16 just above path Day 1 about 5 hours behind Last day for 797

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 034 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 034 is Friday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-15 07:16:14

Today on Mars: 0036/02/07 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/15 Monday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 017.2 Sol Number: 35 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 016.7 Previous Sol: 34

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,200,607 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +157816 <= 6576 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/15 (time:8:36)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,042,791 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +155430 <= 6614 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/14 (time:DST)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 238,887,361 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +171012 <= 6654 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/13 (time:8:06)

Next up: Not much! Star HIP 20071 Magnitude 7.54 below path Day 0 about 11 hours ahead - good for one day
Galaxy PGC 1674531 RA 4h 16m 01.7s Below path Day 1 about 11 hours behind - last day for 531

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 035 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 035 is Saturday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-16 06:46:15

Today on Mars: 0036/02/08 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/16 Tuesday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 017.6 Sol Number: 36 Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL: 017.2 Previous Sol: 35

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,357,437 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +156830 <= 6546 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/16 (time:8:36)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,200,607 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +157816 <= 6576 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/15 (time:8:36)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,042,791 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +155430 <= 6614 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/14 (time:DST)

Next up: Star TYC 1816-1776-1 Magnitude 11.42 Just above path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead - might last two days
Next up: Star TYC 1816-1203-1 Magnitude 9.92 just above path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Star HIP 20071 Magnitude 7.54 below path Day 1 at edge of view - last day for 20071 - thanks for brightening our view as we passed by

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 036 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 036 is Sunday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

tahanson43206 · 2021-03-17 07:38:30

Today on Mars: 0036/02/09 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/17 Wednesday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

Per http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/tim … _time.html

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 1 month format: 12 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 018.1 Sol Number: 37 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 017.6 Previous Sol: 36

Note that Solar Longitude measurement varies as a function of location in orbit.

Note#2: https://theskylive.com/mars-tracker This web site shows the astronomical position of Mars.
Minus prefix means Mars is approaching the Sun. Perihelion occurred at Ls 253 on Sol 485 - Earth Date 2020/08/03
Plus prefix means Mars is moving away from the Sun. Aphelion will occur near 70 degrees Ls (per www.planetary.org)

Note: The computations below are dependent upon both the computations provided by the reference web site and by accuracy of recording of the time of observations. The calculations use tenths of hours. The Sun Distance needs to be captured at the moment the time increments to a given tenth.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,519,137 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +161700 <= 6494 km/hour at 9.5 on 03/17 (time:9:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,357,437 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +156830 <= 6546 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/16 (time:8:36)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 239,200,607 km [23.0 km/s] Difference is +157816 <= 6576 km/hour at 8.6 on 03/15 (time:8:36)

Next up: slim pickings - Star TYC 1816-958-1 Magnitude 10.54 - Day 0 above and about 4 hours ahead
Star TYC 1816-1776-1 Magnitude 11.42 Just above path Day 1 just above Mars - might be visible one more day
Star TYC 1816-1203-1 Magnitude 9.92 just above path Day 1 about 3 hours past - might be good for another day

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending upward and East as seen from Earth
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.
Light travel in one second is (about) 300,000 kilometers. The distance covered in one minute is about 18,000,000 kilometers.
Light travel time today is between 12 and 13 minutes. Communications delay would be 24+ minutes round trip. [12:216,000,000] [13:234,000,000]

In his online interview with Dr. Zubrin at the 2020 Mars Conference, Elon Musk reminded the audience that communications with Mars will necessarily include an intermediary station to handle traffic when the Sun is between Mars and Earth. Communications delays in that circumstance will increase due to the extra distance to be covered. Mr. Musk indicated he expects such communication will be handled by laser. Location would be optimum at poles of solar plane.

Mars is executing the "Retrograde" movement as seen from Earth. Earth is passing "under" Mars.
Progress of Mars (as seen from Earth) is transitioning back to Eastward as the retrograde movement continues.
The online solar system display at the link below shows clearly how the Mars retrograde movement will occur in months ahead.
Retrograde movement started 2020/09/08 Sol 520

This web site offers an online model of the solar system: www.solarsystemscope.com It requires Chrome 57, Firefox 52 or Safari 10.1

Sol 037 is in Month 02 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 02 extends from Sol 029 through 56. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 01
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 037 is Monday in the Proposed calendar for Mars. <<== Skip day occurred February 4, 2021 on Earth and again on February 11, 2021

The Next New Year's on Mars will occur when Solar Longitude reaches 360 degrees. <<== The current year on Mars is 36
Per www.planetary.org this occurred February 7, 2021 (on Earth). The new Mars Year is 36.

The next Skip Day will occur in March on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
For those who may be following this proposed calendar closely, there exists a "feature" I had not anticipated.
Days of the week fall behind Earth due to the longer Sol, but they gain when Friday is omitted at the end of a Quarter
337 Earth days were observed to elapse in the 2020 weekday cycle. There were 7 week day transitions and 2 Quarter ends.

For current weather on Mars see:

***https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/***
***Insights weather info has been suspended and now is directing to msl***

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/

Per SpaceNut: Here is another web page by NASA containing the latest news releases

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/?page=0&per_ … ope=Latest

All forum members are invited to post significant events for this day.
Events of interest will be ON Mars, or relate to Mars. Examples are launches, landings, discoveries

Recruiting text may be found at the bottom of this post: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257

Month 2 of 24: Month 2 of Quarter 1 Year 36

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#953 2021-02-24 06:57:18

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#954 2021-02-25 06:39:41

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#955 2021-02-26 06:37:49

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#956 2021-02-27 07:36:15

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#957 2021-02-28 08:06:55

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#958 2021-02-28 09:54:28

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#959 2021-03-01 07:12:04

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#960 2021-03-02 08:17:08

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#961 2021-03-03 07:07:27

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#962 2021-03-04 08:06:28

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#963 2021-03-05 06:53:00

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#964 2021-03-06 09:23:33

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#965 2021-03-07 06:59:05

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#966 2021-03-08 08:10:03

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#967 2021-03-09 07:45:46

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#968 2021-03-11 08:03:22

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#969 2021-03-12 06:13:32

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#970 2021-03-13 07:22:36

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#971 2021-03-13 10:13:28

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#972 2021-03-14 07:02:38

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#973 2021-03-15 07:16:14

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#974 2021-03-16 06:46:15

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#975 2021-03-17 07:38:30

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