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

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-18 07:23:02

Today on Mars: 0036/15/03 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.

Today on Earth: 2022/03/18 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 192.2 Sol Number: 393 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 191.6 Previous Sol:392

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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,468,366 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -167625 <= -6984 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,635,991 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -168564 <= -7024 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/17 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,804,555 km [25.4 km/s] Difference is -162484 <= -7065 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/16 (time 8:00)

Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Star just above path: TYC 6352-28-1 Mg 11.20 RA 20h 48m 31.0s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
TYC 6339-557-1 Mg 11.70 RA 20h 45m 06.4s [6339-100-1/6339-1742-1/6339-338-1] Day 0 12 hours ahead - Day 1 about 12 hours behind

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/18 282,329,945 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/17 283,289,138 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/16 284,170,814 (decrease)

Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 393 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 393 is Monday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-19 06:35:21

Today on Mars: 0036/15/04 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
---
Today on Earth: 2022/03/19 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 192.8 Sol Number: 394 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 192.2 Previous Sol:393
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,301,915 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -166451 <= -6935 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/19 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,468,366 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -167625 <= -6984 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,635,991 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -168564 <= -7024 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/17 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Star TYC 6352-298-1 Mg 10.49 RA 20h 51m 03.7s in path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
TYC 6352-28-1 Mg 11.20 RA 20h 48m 31.0s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - Day 1 about 9 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/19 281,447,244 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/18 282,329,945 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/17 283,289,138 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 394 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 394 is Wednesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-20 08:14:03

Today on Mars: 0036/15/05 Thursday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
---
Today on Earth: 2022/03/20 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 193.3 Sol Number: 395 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 192.8 Previous Sol:394
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,136,451 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -165464 <= -6894 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/20 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,301,915 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -166451 <= -6935 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/19 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,468,366 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -167625 <= -6984 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/18 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy just above path PGC 866986 RA 20h 53m 53.4s Day 0 about 9 hours ahead
Star TYC 6352-298-1 Mg 10.49 RA 20h 51m 03.7s in path Day 0 about 12 hours ahead - Day 1 about 12 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/20 280,473,624 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/19 281,447,244 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/18 282,329,945 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 395 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 395 is Thursday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-21 07:29:50

Today on Mars: 0036/15/06 Friday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
---
Today on Earth: 2022/03/21 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 193.9 Sol Number: 396 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 193.3 Previous Sol:395
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,972,056 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -164395 <= -6850 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/21 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,136,451 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -165464 <= -6894 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/20 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,301,915 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -166451 <= -6935 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/19 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up - Galaxy pair bracket path: PGC 869726 RA 20h 57m 50.4s and PGC 868916 - Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
PGC 866986 RA 20h 53m 53.4s Day 0 about 9 hours ahead - Day1 - just in view at far right - about 15 hours past
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/21 279,583,888 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/20 280,473,624 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/19 281,447,244 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 396 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 396 is Friday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-22 06:37:24

Today on Mars: 0036/15/07 Saturday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
---
Today on Earth: 2022/03/22 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 194.5 Sol Number: 397 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 193.9 Previous Sol:396
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,806,692 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165364 <= -6805 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/22 (time 8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,972,056 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -164395 <= -6850 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/21 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 215,136,451 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -165464 <= -6894 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/20 (time 8:00)
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Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy PGC 871289 just below path RA 21h 00m 24.1s Day 0 - about 14 hours ahead - look 10 hours behind on Day 1
Next up: Note defined galaxy below path ESO 598-12 Mg 15.7 RA 20h 59m 44.5s Day 0 about 7 hours ahead
PGC 869726 RA 20h 57m 50.4s and PGC 868916 - Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - Day 1 about 7 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/22 278,699,600 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/21 279,583,888 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/20 280,473,624 (decrease)
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Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 397 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 397 is Saturday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day on Earth.
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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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-23 06:52:50

Today on Mars: 0036/15/08 Sunday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/23 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 195.1 Sol Number: 398 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 194.5 Previous Sol:397
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,646,533 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -160159 <= -6758 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/23 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,806,692 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165364 <= -6805 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/22 (time 8:18)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,972,056 km [25.5 km/s] Difference is -164395 <= -6850 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/21 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy PGC 875222 just above path RA 21h 03m 09.4s Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
PGC 871289 just below path RA 21h 00m 24.1s Day 0 - about 14 hours ahead - look 10 hours behind on Day 1 - Day 1 about 10 hours behind
Note defined galaxy below path ESO 598-12 Mg 15.7 RA 20h 59m 44.5s Day 0 about 7 hours ahead - Day 1 still visible about 17 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/23 277,778k,899 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/22 278,699,600 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/21 279,583,888 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 398 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 398 is Sunday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-24 06:26:16

Today on Mars: 0036/15/09 Monday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/24 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 195.7 Sol Number: 399 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 195.1 Previous Sol:398
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,485,531 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -161009 <= -6708 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/24 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,646,533 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -160159 <= -6758 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/23 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,806,692 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165364 <= -6805 km/hour at 8.3 on 03/22 (time 8:18)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Slim pickings - Star below asterism of V pointing down to star: TYC 6350-893-1 Mg 12.04 RA 21h 06m 35.4s Day 0 - about 12 hours ahead
PGC 875222 just above path RA 21h 03m 09.4s Day 0 about 12 hours ahead - Day 1 about 12 hours past
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/24 276,880,923 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/23 277,778,899 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/22 278,699,600 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 399 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 399 is Monday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-25 06:48:54

Today on Mars: 0036/15/10 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/25 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 196.3 Sol Number: 400 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 195.7 Previous Sol:399
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,332,219 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -153312 <= -6666 km/hour at 7.0 on 03/25 (time 7:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,485,531 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -161009 <= -6708 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/24 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,646,533 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -160159 <= -6758 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/23 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Crouching rabbit asterism - TYC 6530-690-1 Mg 11.58 RA 21h 09m 20.0s below path Day 0 about 11 hours ahead
Star below asterism of V pointing down to star: TYC 6350-893-1 Mg 12.04 RA 21h 06m 35.4s Day 0 - about 12 hours ahead - Day 1 about 11 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/25 275,961,770 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/24 276,880,923 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/23 277,778,899 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 400 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 400 is Tuesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-26 06:22:28

Today on Mars: 0036/15/11 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/26 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 196.9 Sol Number: 401 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 196.3 Previous Sol:400
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,166,820 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165399 <= -6616 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/26 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,332,219 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -153312 <= -6666 km/hour at 7.0 on 03/25 (time 7:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,485,531 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -161009 <= -6708 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/24 (time 8:00)
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Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: A giant flying wedge ahead of path: Lead TYC 6351-563-1 Mg 11.08 RA 21h 13m 23.8s Day 0 about 18 hours ahead
- TYC 6530-690-1 Mg 11.58 RA 21h 09m 20.0s below path Day 0 about 11 hours ahead - Day 1 about 14 hours behind
---
As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/26 275,062,080 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/25 275,961,770 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/24 276,880,923 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 401 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 401 is Wednesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-27 06:56:07

Today on Mars: 0036/15/12 Thursday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/27 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 197.5 Sol Number: 402 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 196.9 Previous Sol:401
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,009,319 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157501 <= -6563 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/27 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,166,820 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165399 <= -6616 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/26 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,332,219 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -153312 <= -6666 km/hour at 7.0 on 03/25 (time 7:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Directly in path: TYC 6351-389-1 Mg 10.61 RA 21h 15m 37.4s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
Note a mini-Boomer below path - HIP 104914 Mg 5.96 RA 21h 15m 06.6s Day 0 about 8 hours ahead - likely out of view tomorrow
TYC 6351-563-1 Mg 11.08 RA 21h 13m 23.8s Day 0 about 18 hours ahead - Day 1 about 5 hours behind
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/27 274,132,217 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/26 275,062,080 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/25 275,961,770 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 402 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 402 is Thursday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-28 06:57:21

Today on Mars: 0036/15/13 Friday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/28 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 198.1 Sol Number: 403 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 197.5 Previous Sol:402
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,851,683 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157636 <= -6514 km/hour at 8.2 on 03/28 (time 8:12)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,009,319 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157501 <= -6563 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/27 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,166,820 km [25.6 km/s] Difference is -165399 <= -6616 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/26 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: slim pickings: Eligible stars (or galaxies) must be at least 9 hours ahead of Mars in order to be likely to be visible 24 hours later.
TYC 6351-389-1 Mg 10.61 RA 21h 15m 37.4s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - Day 1 about 9 hours behind
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/28 273,223,340 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/27 274,132,217 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/26 275,062,080 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 403 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 403 is Friday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.
For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-29 08:30:12

Today on Mars: 0036/15/14 Saturday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/29 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 198.6 Sol Number: 404 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 198.1 Previous Sol:403
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,697,837 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153846 <= -6464 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/29 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,851,683 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157636 <= -6514 km/hour at 8.2 on 03/28 (time 8:12)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 214,009,319 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157501 <= -6563 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/27 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: A Boomer! HIP 105515 Mg 4.20 below path Day 1 about 12 hours ahead RA 21h 22m 14.8s
TYC 6347-1571-1 Mg 10.48 RA 21h 18m 25.1s Low: TYC 6351-215-1 Mg 11.73 Day 0 about 12 hours ahead - Day 1 about 12 hours behind
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/29 272,258,354 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/28 273,223,340 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/27 274,132,217 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 404 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 404 is Saturday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-30 07:20:53

Today on Mars: 0036/15/15 Sunday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
---
Today on Earth: 2022/03/30 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 199.2 Sol Number: 405 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 198.6 Previous Sol:404
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,543,989 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153848 <= -6410 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,697,837 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153846 <= -6464 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/29 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,851,683 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -157636 <= -6514 km/hour at 8.2 on 03/28 (time 8:12)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Note galaxy directly below TYC 6360-598-1 (PGC 894855) - this may be out of view tomorrow due to upward slant of path
Next up: A Bouquet of Flowers asterism - Base below path TYC 6360-598-1 Mg 10.63 RA 21h 23m 56.7s Day 0 about 7 hours ahead
HIP 105515 Mg 4.20 below path Day 1 about 12 hours ahead RA 21h 22m 14.8s - Day 1 about 8 hours behind - still dominating the scene
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/30 271,393,769 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/29 272,258,354 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/28 273,223,340 (decrease)
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Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 405 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 405 is Sunday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-03-31 08:27:00

Today on Mars: 0036/15/16 Monday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/03/31 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 199.8 Sol Number: 406 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 199.2 Previous Sol:405
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,390,756 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153233 <= -6358 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/31 (time 8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,543,989 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153848 <= -6410 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,697,837 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153846 <= -6464 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/29 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Note galaxy directly below TYC 6360-598-1 (PGC 894855) - this may be out of view tomorrow due to upward slant of path
Next up: A Bouquet of Flowers asterism - Base below path TYC 6360-598-1 Mg 10.63 RA 21h 23m 56.7s Day 0 about 7 hours ahead
HIP 105515 Mg 4.20 below path Day 1 about 12 hours ahead RA 21h 22m 14.8s - Day 1 about 8 hours behind - still dominating the scene
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/03/31 270,455,348 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/30 271,393,769 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/29 272,258,354 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 406 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 406 is Monday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-01 06:16:37

Today on Mars: 0036/15/17 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/01 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 200.4 Sol Number: 407 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 199.8 Previous Sol:406
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,240,059 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -150697 <= -6305 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/01 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,390,756 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153233 <= -6358 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/31 (time 8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,543,989 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153848 <= -6410 km/hour at 8.0 on 03/30 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy PGC 904144 RA 21h 30m 55.4s in path Day 0 about 18 hours ahead
TYC 6361-1059-1 Mg 11.29 RA 21h 29m 06.8s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead at viewing time - Day 1 just ahead of Mars
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/01 269,624,733 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/31 270,455,348 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/30 271,393,769 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 407 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 407 is Tuesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-02 06:36:06

Today on Mars: 0036/15/18 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/02 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 201.0 Sol Number: 408 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 200.4 Previous Sol:407
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,090,030 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150029 <= -6251 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/02 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,240,059 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -150697 <= -6305 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/01 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,390,756 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -153233 <= -6358 km/hour at 8.1 on 03/31 (time 8:06)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: A star directly in path: TYC 6361-377-1 Mg 11.89 RA 21h 33m 09.1s Day 1 about 10 hours ahead
Note: We have a nice showing of galaxies in this view - a quick estimate is 20.
Galaxy PGC 904144 RA 21h 30m 55.4s in path Day 0 about 18 hours ahead - Day 1 about 7 hours past Mars
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/02 269,624,733 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/01 269,624,733 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/03/31 270,455,348 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 408 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 408 is Wednesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-03 06:21:27

Today on Mars: 0036/15/19 Thursday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/03 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 201.6 Sol Number: 409 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 201.0 Previous Sol:408
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,941,297 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -148733 <= -6197 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/03 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,090,030 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150029 <= -6251 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/02 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,240,059 km [25.7 km/s] Difference is -150697 <= -6305 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/01 (time 8:00)
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Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy in path: PGC 909904 RA 21h 36m 46.7s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - should be good for 24 hours
Note mini-Boomer ahead of Mars and below: HIP 106631 Mg 8.67 Day 0 about 7 hours ahead - unlikely to be visible tomorrow
TYC 6361-377-1 Mg 11.89 RA 21h 33m 09.1s Day 1 about 10 hours ahead - Day 1 out of view on right - Display is not centered on Mars
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/03 267,817,466 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/02 269,624,733 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/01 269,624,733 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 409 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 409 is Thursday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day on Earth.
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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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-04 08:04:38

Today on Mars: 0036/15/20 Friday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/04 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 202.2 Sol Number: 410 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 201.6 Previous Sol:409
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,790,862 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150435 <= -6150 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time 8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,941,297 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -148733 <= -6197 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/03 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 213,090,030 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150029 <= -6251 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/02 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up : Three stars and a Galaxy across path: Top: TYC 6362-129-1 Mg 10.88 RA 21h 39m 21.9s Day 0 about 11 hours ahead
Galaxy in path: PGC 909904 RA 21h 36m 46.7s Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - should be good for 24 hours - Day 1 right at 10 hour mark
Note mini-Boomer ahead of Mars and below: HIP 106631 Mg 8.67 Day 0 about 7 hours ahead - Day 1 ** just ** visible at extreme right of view
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/04 266,853,666 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/03 267,817,466 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/02 269,624,733 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 410 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 410 is Friday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-05 06:22:48

Today on Mars: 0036/15/21 Saturday <<-- Days of the week offset 3 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/05 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 202.8 Sol Number: 411 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 202.2 Previous Sol:410
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,647,861 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -143001 <= -6085 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/05 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,790,862 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150435 <= -6150 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time 8:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,941,297 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -148733 <= -6197 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/03 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Star and galaxy across path at 9 hour mark: TYC 6362-590-1 Mg 9.96 RA 21h 41m 51.4s PGC 914059 Day 0 9 hours ahead
TYC 6362-129-1 Mg 10.88 RA 21h 39m 21.9s Day 0 about 11 hours ahead- Day 1 about 12 hours behind
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/05 266,018,777 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/04 266,853,666 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/03 267,817,466 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 411 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 411 is Saturday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 339 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in February 2022 (on: 28th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in April 2022 (on 9th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-06 06:28:28

Today on Mars: 0036/15/21 Saturday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth. <<== Skip Day
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/06 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 203.4 Sol Number: 411 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 202.8Previous Sol:411 <<== Skip Day
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,503,208 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -144653 <= -6027 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/06 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,647,861 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -143001 <= -6085 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/05 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,790,862 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -150435 <= -6150 km/hour at 8.5 on 04/04 (time 8:30)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: Galaxy in the path: PGC 919508 RA 21h 46m 03.0s Day 0 about 18 hours ahead
TYC 6362-590-1 Mg 9.96 RA 21h 41m 51.4s PGC 914059 Day 0 9 hours ahead - Day 1 off the screen to the right
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/06 265,117,444 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/05 266,018,777 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/04 266,853,666 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 411 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 411 is Saturday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-08 07:09:09

Today on Mars: 0036/15/22 Sunday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/07 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 204.0 Sol Number: 412 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 203.4 Previous Sol:411 <<== Skip Day
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,359,935 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -141881 <= -5970 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/07 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,503,208 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -144653 <= -6027 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/06 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,647,861 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -143001 <= -6085 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/05 (time 8:00)
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Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Missed posting for Thursday
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As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Missed posting on 2022/04/07
Earth Distance 2022/04/06 265,117,444 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/05 266,018,777 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/04 266,853,666 (decrease)
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Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 17 and 18 minutes. Communications delay would be 34+ minutes round trip. [17:270,000,000/18:300,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 412 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 412 is Sunday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day on Earth.
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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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-08 07:24:19

Today on Mars: 0036/15/23 Monday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/07 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 204.6 Sol Number: 413 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 204.0 Previous Sol:412
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,218,054 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -141881 <= -5912 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/08 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,359,935 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -1????? <= -5970 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/07 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,503,208 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -144653 <= -6027 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/06 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: TYC 5801-390-1 Mg 11.98 RA 21h 51m 8.9s just below path Day 0 about 9 hours ahead
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/08 263,293,555 (decrease)
Missed posting on 2022/04/07
Earth Distance 2022/04/06 265,117,444 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 16 and 17 minutes. Communications delay would be 32+ minutes round trip. [16:240,000,000/17:270,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 413 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 413 is Monday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-09 06:27:04

Today on Mars: 0036/15/24 Tuesday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/09 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 205.2 Sol Number: 414 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 204.6 Previous Sol:413
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,077,575 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -140479 <= -5853 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/09 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,218,054 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -141881 <= -5912 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/08 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,359,935 km [25.8 km/s] Difference is -1????? <= -5970 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/07 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: A row of galaxies across path: Top is PGC 928743 RA 21h 54m 18.9s Day 0 about 12 hours ahead
Next up: Micro-Boomer just above path: HIP 108044 Mg 8.13 RA 21h 53m 21.6s Day 0 about five hours ahead
TYC 5801-390-1 Mg 11.98 RA 21h 51m 8.9s just below path Day 0 about 9 hours ahead - Day 1 about 12 hours behind
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/09 262,436,130 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/08 263,293,555 (decrease)
Missed posting on 2022/04/07
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 16 and 17 minutes. Communications delay would be 32+ minutes round trip. [16:240,000,000/17:270,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 414 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 414 is Tuesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-10 08:15:47

Today on Mars: 0036/15/25 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth. <<== Skip Day
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/10 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 205.8 Sol Number: 415 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 205.2 Previous Sol:414
---
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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 211,938,592 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -138983 <= -5791 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/10 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,077,575 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -140479 <= -5853 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/09 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,218,054 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -141881 <= -5912 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/08 (time 8:00)
---
Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: A trio of galaxies across the path: Center: PGC 163479 RA 21h 57m 00.8s Day 0 about 10 hours ahead
PGC 928743 RA 21h 54m 18.9s Day 0 about 12 hours ahead - Day one about 12 hours past ...
HIP 108044 Mg 8.13 RA 21h 53m 21.6s Day 0 about five hours ahead -Day 1 - still visible but just barely - at far right of screen - about 18 hours past
---

As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/10 261,478,666 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/09 262,436,130 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/08 263,293,555 (decrease)
---
Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 16 and 17 minutes. Communications delay would be 32+ minutes round trip. [16:240,000,000/17:270,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 415 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 415 is Wednesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day 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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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 15 of 24: Third month of the 3rd Quarter and Second Half

tahanson43206 · 2022-04-11 06:36:19

Today on Mars: 0036/15/26 Thursday <<-- Days of the week offset 4 with Earth.
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Today on Earth: 2022/04/11 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 also see: in-the-sky.org for oppositon/perigee/aphelion

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 7 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 210 degrees

Solar Longitude: 206.4 Sol Number: 416 Change in degrees is +.6
Previous SL: 205.8 Previous Sol:415
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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 occurred on Sol 152 at 71 degrees Ls.
Aphelion occurred near 70 degrees Ls on Sol 153 (per www.planetary.org)

Note#3: 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.

Note on data below: The figure quoted after distance is [to be determined]
The figure computed to the right of "Difference" is the rate of change of the distance to Sun. That distance should be increasing to Aphelion.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 211,801,019 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -137573 <= -5732 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/11 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 211,938,592 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -138983 <= -5791 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/10 (time 8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 212,077,575 km [25.9 km/s] Difference is -140479 <= -5853 km/hour at 8.0 on 04/09 (time 8:00)
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Observation: The sky view is ** filled ** with objects and very few have been recorded and given identification by humans or their robot assistants
And! ** All ** the location assignments are from the perspective of Earth. The entire catalog needs to be adjusted when inter-stellar travel begins
The work that lies ahead for the astronomical community is daunting - there is work ahead for centuries
2022/01/19 - All current (existing) stellar catalogs are computed with reference to the Earth. Another civilization would use it's planet as reference.
Perhaps a Milky Way frame of reference will become necessary at some point. The Earth is as good a Zero point as any, for humans.

Next up: TYC 5808-1336-1 Mg 12.09 RA 22h 00 58.4s directly in path Day 0 about 17 hours ahead
Next up: A micro-Boomer: HIP 108647 RA 22h 00m 38.2s below path Day 0 about 14 hours ahead
PGC 163479 RA 21h 57m 00.8s Day 0 about 10 hours ahead - Day 1 about 14 hours behind ... at the very edge of the view on the right
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As a general observation ... I've become increasingly interested in knowing what the larger view of the sky might be like.
The site: theskylive.com does a terrific job of matching the view from Earth towards Mars, against a background of actual astronomical plates.
I wish there were a way (or rather, I wish I ** knew ** about a way that may exist) to enlarge the view until the entire galaxy is in view.
Update 2021/07/30 I wrote to an astronomer to ask if there might be a web site with a view showing the galaxy in context of a given view.
Update 2022/01/22 What I'm asking for is a "Zoom Out" feature. If anyone knows of such a service, please contact the NewMars portal.

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 up through horizontal, and on 2022/01/31, it is inclining slightly upward

Earth Distance 2022/04/11 260,650,555 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/10 261,478,666 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2022/04/09 262,436,130 (decrease)
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Mars and Earth are coming closer after Conjunction. The two planets were on opposite sides of the Sun at Earth Distance maximum October 2021.

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 16 and 17 minutes. Communications delay would be 32+ minutes round trip. [16:240,000,000/17:270,000,000]

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 - Update 2022/01/04 Retrograde movement is still in progress on sol 322

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 416 is in Month 15 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary. <<== Skip Day Sol 411
Month 15 extends from Sol 391 through 418. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 15
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 416 is Thursday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars. Sol 411 was a skip day on Earth.
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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 last Skip Day occurred in April 2022 (on:6th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
The next Skip day is expected in May 2022 (on 13th) on Earth.

For those who may not 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.
The next cycle began on the first Sol of the period of coincidence. The alignment of weekdays interval is in the range: (310 - 337)
Use Search Term Alignment to find the first day of a period of coincidence.

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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