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

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-19 06:24:11

Today on Mars: 0036/10/26 Thursday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/19 Friday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 129.2 Sol Number: 277 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 128.7 Previous Sol:276

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,590,135 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -152222 <= 6919 km/hour at 6.0 on 11/19 (time:6:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,742,357 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -160980 <= 6879 km/hour at 8.0 on 11/18 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,903,337 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -161719 <= 6853 km/hour at 8.6 on 11/17 (time:8:36)

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

Next up: Galaxy PGC 906607 RA 14h 45m 28.5s below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
PGC 912126 above PGC 910684 below Day 0 about 15 hours ahead - Day 1 about 8 hours behind

As a general observation ... In recent days 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/19 378,417,919 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/18 378,916,799 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/17 379,415,797 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 277 is in Month 10 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 10 extends from Sol 252 through 279. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 277 is Thursday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 10 of 24: - Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 days)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-20 07:53:19

Today on Mars: 0036/10/27 Friday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/20 Saturday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 129.7 Sol Number: 278 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 129.2 Previous Sol:277

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,409,226 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -180909 <= 6958 km/hour at 8.0 on 11/20 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,590,135 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -152222 <= 6919 km/hour at 6.0 on 11/19 (time:6:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,742,357 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -160980 <= 6879 km/hour at 8.0 on 11/18 (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

Next up (lots of candidates) TYC 6155-808-1, TYC 6155-939-1, TYC 6154-399-1 Magnitude 11.30 below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead
Galaxy PGC 906607 RA 14h 45m 28.5s below path Day 0 about 20 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/20 377,859,452 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/19 378,417,919 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/18 378,916,799 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 278 is in Month 10 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 10 extends from Sol 252 through 279. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 278 is Friday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 10 of 24: - Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 days)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-21 08:53:38

Today on Mars: 0036/10/28 Saturday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/21 Sunday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

One day note: This is the last day of Month 10

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 130.2 Sol Number: 279 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 129.7 Previous Sol:278

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,231,712 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -177514 <= 6988 km/hour at 9.4 on 11/2` (time:9:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,409,226 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -180909 <= 6958 km/hour at 8.0 on 11/20 (time:8:00)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,590,135 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -152222 <= 6919 km/hour at 6.0 on 11/19 (time:6:00)

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

Next up: Boomer (when it comes into view):
Next up: A Boomer! is just to the left of the view. A mini-Boomer is ahead and above path: HIP 72603 Magnitude 5.11 ahead about 15 hours Day 0
TYC 6155-808-1, TYC 6155-939-1, TYC 6154-399-1 Magnitude 11.30 below path Day 0 about 20 hours ahead - Day 1 about 8 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/21 377,303,520 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/20 377,859,452 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/19 378,417,919 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 279 is in Month 10 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 10 extends from Sol 252 through 279. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 279 is Saturday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 10 of 24: - Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 days)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-22 08:19:08

Today on Mars: 0036/11/01 Sunday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/22 Monday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 130.6 Sol Number: 280 Change in degrees is +.4
Previous SL: 130.2 Previous Sol:279

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,072,204 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -159508 <= 7027 km/hour at 8.1 on 11/22 (time:8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,231,712 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -177514 <= 6988 km/hour at 9.4 on 11/21 (time:9:24)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,409,226 km [23.1 km/s] Difference is -180909 <= 6958 km/hour at 8.0 on 11/20 (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

Next up: Micro-boomer: HIP 72784 Magnitude 8.15 Day 0 below path and about 12 hours ahead
Boomer (when it comes into view): Day 1 about 8 hours past Mars: HIP 72622 Magnitude 2.74
HIP 72603 Magnitude 5.11 ahead about 15 hours Day 0 Day 1 about 10 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/22 376,775,944 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/21 377,303,520 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/20 377,859,452 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 280 is in Month 11 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 11 extends from Sol 280 through 307. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 280 is Sunday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 11 of 24: Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 Sols)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-23 09:23:30

Today on Mars: 0036/11/02 Monday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/23 Tuesday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 131.1 Sol Number: 281 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 130.6 Previous Sol:280

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 236,891,380 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -180824 <= 7063 km/hour at 9.7 on 11/23 (time:9:42)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,072,204 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -159508 <= 7027 km/hour at 8.1 on 11/22 (time:8:06)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 237,231,712 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -177514 <= 6988 km/hour at 9.4 on 11/21 (time:9:24)

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

Next up: Pair: Above: TYC 6155-558-1 Mg11.37 Below: TYC 6155-719-1 Mg11.53 Day 0 about 10 hours ahead
HIP 72784 Magnitude 8.15 Day 0 below path and about 12 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/23 376,203,481 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/22 376,775,944 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/21 377,303,520 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 281 is in Month 11 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 11 extends from Sol 280 through 307. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 281 is Monday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 11 of 24: Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 Sols)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-25 08:05:33

Today on Mars: 0036/11/04 Wednesday <<-- Days of the week are ** NOT in ** alignment with Earth. The next skip day is in December on Earth.

Today on Earth: 2021/11/25 Thursday (Earth Date) Post Title: Today on Mars [Perihelion occurred August 3, 2020 Earth Calendar]

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

Martian Year: 36 Martian Month in 12 month format: 5 <<== The Astronomical month will increment when longitude reaches 150 degrees

Solar Longitude: 132.1 Sol Number: 283 Change in degrees is +.5
Previous SL: 131.5 Previous Sol:282

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.

Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 236,565,669 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -171037 <= 7127 km/hour at 7.5 on 11/24 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 236,736,706 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -154674 <= 7095 km/hour at 7.5 on 11/24 (time:7:30)
Distance: Mars >> Sun per theskylive.com: 236,891,380 km [23.2 km/s] Difference is -180824 <= 7063 km/hour at 9.7 on 11/23 (time:9:42)

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

Next up: TYC 6172-1285-1 Magnitude 9.23 in path Day 0 about 15 hours ahead
NGC 5796 view from pole or globular cluster. NGC 5793 Day 0 about 20 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.

Note: The curve of the path of Mars as seen against the background of stars is now a line trending noticeably down and East as seen from Earth
In recent days, the curve has been slowly bending down through horizontal.

Earth Distance 2021/11/25 375,115,282 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/24 375,636,603 (decrease)
Earth Distance 2021/11/23 376,203,481 (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 20 and 21 minutes. Communications delay would be 40+ minutes round trip. [20:360,000,000][21:390,000,000]

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

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

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

Sol 283 is in Month 11 of a Proposed 24 month calendar. See Post 19 of Holidays topic for a summary.
Month 11 extends from Sol 280 through 307. See post 82 of Holidays topic for current details. <<== There are 28 days in Month 09
Direct path to source: http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p154257
Sol 283 is Wednesday in the Proposed Business calendar for Mars.

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

The next Skip Day will occur in December (estimate: 15th) on Earth. A Skip Day occurs when the longer Mars Sol accumulates 24 Earth hours.
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 11 of 24: Quarter 2 of 4 [Months 7-12] (This month has 28 Sols)

tahanson43206 · 2021-11-25 08:06:01