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#976 2021-03-18 06:15:34

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/10 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/18 Thursday (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: 018.6  Sol Number: 38  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      018.1  Previous Sol: 37

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:   239,664,351 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +145214 <= 6454 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,519,137 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +161700 <= 6493 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)

Next up: Star TYC 1816-812-1 Magnitude 9.84 just below path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - might be good for two days
Note Boomer below path: HIP 20513 Magnitude 6.85 below path about 8 hours past - will be out of view tomorrow
Star TYC 1816-958-1 Magnitude 10.54 - Day 1 above and about 18 hours behind ... last day for 958
Star TYC 1816-1776-1 Magnitude 11.42 Just above path Day 2 at the edge of the view - last day for 1776

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 038 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 038 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

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#977 2021-03-19 05:29:26

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/11 Wedneday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/19 Friday (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: 019.0  Sol Number: 39  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      018.6  Previous Sol: 38

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:   239,810,616 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +146265 <= 6415 km/hour at 6.8 on 03/19 (time:6:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,664,351 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +145214 <= 6454 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,519,137 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +161700 <= 6493 km/hour at 9.5 on 03/17 (time:9:30)

Next up: Slim pickings: Star TYC 1829-277-1 Magnituce 9.03 well below path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - likely good for only one day
Note Boomer HIP 20789 Magnitude 5.53 far below path and only visible today
Star TYC 1816-812-1 Magnitude 9.84 just below path Day 1 about 5 hours behind - last day for 812

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 039 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 039 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

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#978 2021-03-20 06:29:05

tahanson43206
Moderator
Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/12 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/20 Saturday (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: 019.5  Sol Number: 40  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      019.0  Previous Sol: 39

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:   239,969,963 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +159347 <= 6373 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/20 (time:7:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,810,616 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +146265 <= 6415 km/hour at 6.8 on 03/19 (time:6:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,664,351 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +145214 <= 6454 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time:8:00)

Next up: A boomer! HIP 21094 Magnitude 6.88 just below path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - good for one day for sure and possibly 2
Star TYC 1829-277-1 Magnitude 9.03 well below path Day 1 about 11 hours past - last day for 277

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 13 and 14 minutes. Communications delay would be 26+ minutes round trip. [13:234,000,000] [14:252,000,000]

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 040 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 040 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

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#979 2021-03-21 06:24:01

tahanson43206
Moderator
Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/13 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/21 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: 020.0  Sol Number: 41  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      019.5  Previous Sol: 40

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:   240,122,541 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +152578 <= 6331 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/21 (time:7:54)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,969,963 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +159347 <= 6373 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/20 (time:7:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,810,616 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +146265 <= 6415 km/hour at 6.8 on 03/19 (time:6:48)

Next up: Two TYC's one high one low TYC 1829-712-1 Magnitude 9.35 above path Day 0 about 18 hours ahead
TYC 1829-663-1 Magnitude 10.14 below path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead - likely good for two days
HIP 21094 Magnitude 6.88 just below path Day 1 about 7 or 8 hours behind ... last day for 21094

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 248,830,744
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 13 and 14 minutes. Communications delay would be 26+ minutes round trip. [13:234,000,000] [14:252,000,000]

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 041 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 041 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

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#980 2021-03-22 07:48:13

tahanson43206
Moderator
Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/14 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/22 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: 020.5  Sol Number: 42  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      020.0  Previous Sol: 41

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:   240,280,365 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +157824 <= 6287 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/22 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,122,541 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +152578 <= 6331 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/21 (time:7:54)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   239,969,963 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +159347 <= 6373 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/20 (time:7:48)

Next up: Slim pickings: TYC 1829-327-1 Magnitude 9.82 Day 0 about 8 hours ahead - good for one day
Note Boomer in passing: HIP 21459 Magnitude 6.00 Below path about 11 hours ahead - one day only
TYC 1829-712-1 Magnitude 9.35 above path Day 1 about 9 hours behind - last day for 712
TYC 1829-663-1 Magnitude 10.14 below path Day 1 about 5.5 hours behind - last day for 663

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 248,830,744
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 13 and 14 minutes. Communications delay would be 26+ minutes round trip. [13:234,000,000] [14:252,000,000]

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 042 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 042 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

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#981 2021-03-23 07:25:25

tahanson43206
Moderator
Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/15 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth.  <<== Last day for Month 1 of 24

Today on Earth: 2021/03/23 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: 020.9  Sol Number: 43  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      020.5  Previous Sol: 42

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:   240,427,123 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +146758 <= 6245 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/23 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,280,365 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +157824 <= 6287 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/22 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,122,541 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +152578 <= 6331 km/hour at 7.7 on 03/21 (time:7:54)

Next up - TYC 1830-72-1 Magnitude 11.51 below path Day 0 - about 20 hours ahead
Next up - one high and one low - TYC 1830-1055-1 Magnitude 11.28 Day 0 about 16 hours ahead
TYC 1829-327-1 Magnitude 9.82 Day 1 Still visible at edge of view on right - Definitely the last day for 327
Note Boomer in passing: HIP 21459 Magnitude 6.00 Below path Day 1 Surprise! Still visible ... about 11 hours behind and in lower right of view

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 248,830,744
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 13 and 14 minutes. Communications delay would be 26+ minutes round trip. [13:234,000,000] [14:252,000,000]

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 043 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 043 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

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#982 2021-03-24 07:24:26

tahanson43206
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Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/16 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/24 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: 021.4  Sol Number: 44  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      020.9  Previous Sol: 43

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:   240,579,059 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +151936 <= 6201 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/24 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,427,123 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +146758 <= 6245 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/23 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,280,365 km [22.9 km/s] Difference is +157824 <= 6287 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/22 (time:9:00)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1694652 RA 4h 41m 25.6s above path Day 0 Ahead about 15 hours
Next up: Star TYC 1830-456-1 Magnitude 9.88 well below path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead
TYC 1830-72-1 Magnitude 11.51 below path Day 1 Abreast of Mars ... might be in view tomorrow
TYC 1830-1055-1 Magnitude 11.28  Above path Day 1 about 6 hours behind ...last day for 1055

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 253,095,334
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]


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 044 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 044 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

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#983 2021-03-25 06:50:09

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/17 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/25 Thursday (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: 021.9  Sol Number: 45  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      021.4  Previous Sol: 44

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:   240,723,784 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +144725 <= 6159 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/25 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,579,059 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +151936 <= 6201 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/24 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,427,123 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +146758 <= 6245 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/23 (time:8:30)

Next up: TYC 1830-1893-1 Magnitude 11.86 Day 0 above and well ahead about 16 hours
Next up: Bright TYC 1830-2110-1 Magnitude 9.55 Above path Day 0 about 5.5 hours ahead
Galaxy PGC 1694652 above path Day 1 about 8 hours past - likely last day for 1694652
Star TYC 1830-456-1 Magnitude 9.88 well below path Day 1 Just past Mars - ** might ** be visible tomorrow
TYC 1830-72-1 Magnitude 11.51 below path Day 2 - made it! Still in view at the edge of the field.  Definitely last day for 72!

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 254,459,250
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 045 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 045 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

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#984 2021-03-26 06:17:14

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/18 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/26 Friday (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: 022.3  Sol Number: 46  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      021.9  Previous Sol: 45

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:   240,864,478 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +140694 <= 6117 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/26 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,723,784 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +144725 <= 6159 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/25 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,579,059 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +151936 <= 6201 km/hour at 9.0 on 03/24 (time:9:00)

Next up: Star TYC 1831-1062-1 Magnitude 9.66 above path Day 0 about 10 hours ahead
Next up: Galaxy PGC 1696189 RA 4h 45m 41.8s above path Day 0 about 6 hours ahead
TYC 1830-1893-1 Magnitude 11.86 Day 1 above and about 8 hours behind - likely last day for 1893
Bright TYC 1830-2110-1 Magnitude 9.55 Above path Day 1 - at edge of view - last day for 2110

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 255,818,745
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 046 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 046 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

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#985 2021-03-27 06:26:08

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/19 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/27 Saturday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 022.8  Sol Number: 47  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      022.3  Previous Sol: 46

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:   241,012,024 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +147546 <= 6072 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/27 (time:7:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,864,478 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +140694 <= 6117 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/26 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,723,784 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +144725 <= 6159 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/25 (time:8:30)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1698308 above path Day 0 way ahead of Mars about 22 hours ... might be good for two days
Next up: Galaxy UGC 3165 RA 4h 47m 27.8s nice top view with good definition Day 0 above and even with mars ... likely good for just one day
Star TYC 1831-1062-1 Magnitude 9.66 above path Day 1 about 14 hours behind .... last day for 1062
Galaxy PGC 1696189 RA 4h 45m 41.8s above path Day 1 near edge of view ... last day for 189

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 255,818,745
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 047 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 047 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

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#986 2021-03-28 06:07:20

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/20 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/28 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 023.3  Sol Number: 48  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      022.8  Previous Sol: 47

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:   241,154,900 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +142876 <= 6029 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/28 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,012,024 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +147546 <= 6072 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/27 (time:7:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   240,864,478 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +140694 <= 6117 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/26 (time:7:30)

Note HIP above path: HIP 22536 Magnitude 9.80 RA 4h 51m 0.6s Day 0 about 8 hours ahead
Next up: Star TYC 1831-946-1 Magnitude 10.77 RA 4h 52m 8.0s Day 0 at least 20 hours ahead
Galaxy PGC 1698308 above path RA 4h 49m 27.8s Day 1 just past Mars 5.5 hours - probably last day for 308

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 258,581,157
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 048 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 048 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 or April 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

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#987 2021-03-29 06:36:04

tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

Today on Mars: 0036/02/21 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/29 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 023.7  Sol Number: 49  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      023.3  Previous Sol: 48

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:   241,303,318 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +148418 <= 5985 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/29 (time:8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,154,900 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +142876 <= 6029 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/28 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,012,024 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +147546 <= 6072 km/hour at 7.8 on 03/27 (time:7:48)

Next up: Star HIP 22829 Magnitude 10.58 Directly in path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead - possibly good for two days
Next up: Galaxy PGC 1699738 RA 4h 54m 1.3s just above path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
Note HIP above path: HIP 22536 Magnitude 9.80 RA 4h 51m 0.6s Day 1 about 18 hours behind - last day for 22536
Star TYC 1831-946-1 Magnitude 10.77 RA 4h 52m 8.0s Day 1 about 6 hours behind - last day for 946

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 258,581,157
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 049 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 049 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 or April 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

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#988 2021-03-30 06:53:51

tahanson43206
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Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars:  0036/02/21 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

One day note: Today is a skip day on Mars.  The Sol is holding at 49.  The next skip day will occur in May on Earth

Today on Earth: 2021/03/30 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 024.2  Sol Number: 49  Change in degrees is +.5 <<== Skip Day on Mars 24 hours have accumulated with respect to Earth
Previous SL:      023.7  Previous Sol: 49

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:   241,444,011 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +140693 <= 5936 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time:8:39)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,303,318 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +148418 <= 5985 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/29 (time:8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,154,900 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +142876 <= 6029 km/hour at 7.5 on 03/28 (time:7:30)

Next up: Star TYC 1832-585-1 Magnitude 10.60 in path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Next up: A boomer! HIP 23068 Magnitude 5.70 well below path Day 0 at forward edge of view about 20 hours ahead - so low may not be visible tomorrow
Star HIP 22829 Magnitude 10.58 Directly in path Day 1 about 5.5 hours behind - last day for 22829
Galaxy PGC 1699738 RA 4h 54m 1.3s just above path Day 1 about 12 hours behind - last day for 738

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 261,382,522
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 049 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 049 is Saturday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#989 2021-03-31 07:10:21

tahanson43206
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Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/22 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/03/31 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 024.7  Sol Number: 50  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      024.2  Previous Sol: 49

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:   241,588,370 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +144359 <= 5892 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/31 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,444,011 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +140693 <= 5936 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,303,318 km [22.8 km/s] Difference is +148418 <= 5985 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/29 (time:8:18)


Next up: Galaxy PGC 1702773 RA 5h 00m 01.2s in path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Star TYC 1832-585-1 Magnitude 10.60 in path Day 1 About 8 hours behind ... last day for 585
A boomer! HIP 23068 Magnitude 5.70 well below path Day 1 Still there! About 3 hours past Mars ... last day for 23068 ... Thanks for brightening 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
However, in recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 261,382,522
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 050 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 050 is Sunday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#990 2021-04-01 07:34:03

tahanson43206
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Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/23 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/01 Thursday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 025.1  Sol Number: 51  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      024.7  Previous Sol: 50

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:   241,731,586 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +143216 <= 5846 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/01 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,588,370 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +144359 <= 5892 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/31 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,444,011 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +140693 <= 5936 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time:8:00)

Next up: Star TYC 1845-298-1 Magnitude 11.35 in path Day 0 about 24 hours ahead - should be good for two days
Next up: Star TYC 1845-846-1 Magnitude 8.56 in path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Galaxy PGC 1702773 RA 5h 00m 01.2s in path Day 1 About 5 hours behind - last day for 773

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 261,382,522
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 051 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 051 is Monday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#991 2021-04-02 06:42:32

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/24 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/02 Friday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 025.6  Sol Number: 52  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      025.1  Previous Sol: 51

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:   241,867,857 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136271 <= 5799 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/02 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,731,586 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +143216 <= 5846 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/01 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,588,370 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +144359 <= 5892 km/hour at 8.5 on 03/31 (time:8:30)

Next up: Star TYC 1845-1554-1 Magnitude 10.50 Day 0 ahead about 10 hours
Star TYC 1845-298-1 Magnitude 11.35 in path Day just ahead of Mars - probably good for one more day
Star TYC 1845-846-1 Magnitude 8.56 in path Day 1 about 5 hours past - possibly good for one more 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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 261,382,522
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 052 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 052 is Tuesday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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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tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

One day note: 242,004,815 km [22.7 km/s] at 8.3 2021/04/03 recorded on Chromebook

Today on Mars: 0036/02/25 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/03 Saturday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 026.1  Sol Number: 53  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      025.6  Previous Sol: 52

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:   242,004,815 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136958 <= 5755 km/hour at 8.3 on 04/03 (time:8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,867,857 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136271 <= 5799 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/02 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,731,586 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +143216 <= 5846 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/01 (time:9:00)

Next up: Multiple stars ....
Star TYC 1849-2009-1 Magnitude 12.14 in path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
Star TYC 1849-1522-1 Magnitude 8.73 above path Day 0 about 9 hours ahead
Star TYC 1845-1154-1 Magnitude 10.81 below path Day 0 about 10 hours ahead
Star TYC 1845-1554-1 Magnitude 10.50 Day 1 behind about 15 hours last day for 1554
Star TYC 1845-298-1 Magnitude 11.35 in path Day 2 well past Mars and about to move out of the sliding view.

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 261,382,522
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 053 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 053 is Wednesday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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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#993 2021-04-04 07:39:57

tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

Today on Mars: 0036/02/26 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/04 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 026.5  Sol Number: 54  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      026.1  Previous Sol: 53

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:   242,142,927 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +138112 <= 5797 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,004,815 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136958 <= 5755 km/hour at 8.3 on 04/03 (time:8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   241,867,857 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136271 <= 5799 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/02 (time:8:30)

Next up: Star TYC 1845-3906-1 Magnitude 10.72 below path Day 0 about 10 hours ahead
Note boomer in passing: HIP 23900 Magnitude 5.50 Below and behind Mars
Star TYC 1849-2009-1 Magnitude 12.14 in path Day 1 about 10 hours behind
Star TYC 1849-1522-1 Magnitude 8.73 above path Day 1 about 15 hours behind
Star TYC 1845-1154-1 Magnitude 10.81 below path Day 1 about 15 hours behind

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.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 268,253,150
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 054 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 054 is Thursday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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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#994 2021-04-04 09:01:30

SpaceNut
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

since the data from the seismic unit is working I decided to check the weather web site for insight and was surprised to see the pressure sensors were working once more.
The location of the lander is in the Northern Hemisphere and its coming up on spring as I read the charts supplied.

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tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

Today on Mars: 0036/02/27 Friday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/05 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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 027.0  Sol Number: 55  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      026.5  Previous Sol: 54

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:   242,269,178 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +126251 <= 5661 km/hour at 6.8 on 04/05 (time:6:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,142,927 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +138112 <= 5797 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,004,815 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +136958 <= 5755 km/hour at 8.3 on 04/03 (time:8:18)

Next up: Star TYC 1850-1464-1 Magnitude 10.60 in path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead ... may be good for two days
Star TYC 1845-3906-1 Magnitude 10.72 below path Day 1 about 12 hours behind - last day for 3906

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 269,472,267
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 055 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 055 is Friday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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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#996 2021-04-06 07:12:19

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

Today on Mars: 0036/02/28 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/06 Tuesday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars   [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

One Day Note: Noah has opened a new topic in the NewMars forum: Settlement Design.  The new topic is a candidate for elevation to Index Level.
One Day Note: Today is the last day of Month 2 of the proposed Calendar for Mars

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

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

Solar Longitude: 027.4  Sol Number: 56  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      027.0  Previous Sol: 55

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:   242,413,185 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +144007 <= 5603 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/06 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,269,178 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +126251 <= 5661 km/hour at 6.8 on 04/05 (time:6:48)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,142,927 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +138112 <= 5797 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time:8:30)

Next up: A trio: Star HIP 24494 Magnitude 9.21 in path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Next up: Star TYC 1850-2152-1 Magnitude 10.24 in path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Note stars near 2152 not cataloged
Note Galaxy in view, above path: PGC 143025 about even with Mars
Star TYC 1850-1464-1 Magnitude 10.60 in path Day 1 about 7 hours behind - last day for 1464

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 269,472,267
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 056 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 056 is Saturday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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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#997 2021-04-07 08:29:56

tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

Today on Mars: 0036/03/01 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/07 Wednesday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars   [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

One Day Note: Today is the first day of Month 3 of the proposed Calendar for Mars

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

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

Solar Longitude: 027.9  Sol Number: 57  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      027.4  Previous Sol: 56

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:   242,549,792 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +136607 <= 5576 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/07 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,413,185 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +144007 <= 5603 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/06 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,269,178 km [22.7 km/s] Difference is +126251 <= 5661 km/hour at 6.8 on 04/05 (time:6:48)


Next up: Star TYC 1851-1260-1 Magnitude 9.26 above Path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
A trio: Star HIP 24494 Magnitude 9.21 in path Day 1 about 10 hours behind
Star TYC 1850-2152-1 Magnitude 10.24 in path Day 1 about 8 hours behind

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 269,472,267
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 14 and 15 minutes. Communications delay would be 28+ minutes round trip. [14:252,000,000] [15:270,000,000]

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 057 is in Month 03 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 03 extends from Sol 057 through 85. 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 057 is Sunday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#998 2021-04-08 07:56:16

tahanson43206
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Re: Martian Calender - I have created a martian calender...

Today on Mars: 0036/03/02 Monday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/08 Thursday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 028.4  Sol Number: 58  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      027.9  Previous Sol: 57

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:   242,679,455 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +129663 <= 5517 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/08 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,549,792 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +136607 <= 5576 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/07 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,413,185 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +144007 <= 5603 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/06 (time:8:30)

Next up: Star TYC 1851-409-1 Magnitude 12.61 just below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead - may be good for two days
Star TYC 1851-1260-1 Magnitude 9.26 above Path Day 1 about 5 hours behind - last day for 1260

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 273,651,061
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 15 and 16 minutes. Communications delay would be 30+ minutes round trip. [15:270,000,000] [16:288,000,000]

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 058 is in Month 03 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 03 extends from Sol 057 through 85. 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 058 is Monday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#999 2021-04-09 06:01:56

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/03/03 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/09 Friday (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: 1 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 30 degrees

Solar Longitude: 028.8  Sol Number: 59  Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL:      028.4  Previous Sol: 58

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:   242,804,142 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +124687 <= 5469 km/hour at 7.3 on 04/09 (time:7:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,679,455 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +129663 <= 5517 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/08 (time:8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,549,792 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +136607 <= 5576 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/07 (time:9:00)

Next up: Slim pickings! Star TYC 1851-1080-1 Magnitude 11.68 Well below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead but likely good for only one day
TYC 1851-409-1 Magnitude 12.61 just below path Day 1 just past Mars - likely last day for 409

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 273,651,061
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 15 and 16 minutes. Communications delay would be 30+ minutes round trip. [15:270,000,000] [16:288,000,000]

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 059 is in Month 03 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 03 extends from Sol 057 through 85. 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 059 is Tuesday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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#1000 2021-04-10 07:42:34

tahanson43206
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Registered: 2018-04-27
Posts: 16,754

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

Today on Mars: 0036/03/04 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are not in alignment with Earth. 

Today on Earth: 2021/04/10 Saturday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars   [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

One day note: This is the 1000th post in the series offered to show a business calendar for Mars. 

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

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

Solar Longitude: 029.3  Sol Number: 60  Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL:      028.8  Previous Sol: 59

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:   242,943,459 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +139317 <= 5421 km/hour at 9.0 on 04/10 (time:9:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,804,142 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +124687 <= 5469 km/hour at 7.3 on 04/09 (time:7:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com:   242,679,455 km [22.6 km/s] Difference is +129663 <= 5517 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/08 (time:8:30)

Next up: Galaxy PGC 1712963 RA 5h 26m 23.9s below path Day 0 about 16 hours ahead
TYC 1851-1080-1 Magnitude 11.68 Well below path Day 1 out of view

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending slightly upward and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down toward horizontal.  Earth Distance at last update (here) was km 276,303,977
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 15 and 16 minutes. Communications delay would be 30+ minutes round trip. [15:270,000,000] [16:288,000,000]

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 060 is in Month 03 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 03 extends from Sol 057 through 85. 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 060 is Wednesday  in the Proposed calendar for Mars.  <<== Skip day occurred March 30th on Earth ... next will occur in May on Earth

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 May 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

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