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Mars' Calendar. Time on Mars is easily divided into days based on its rotation rate and years based on its orbit. Sols, or Martian solar days, are only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than Earth days, and there are 668 sols (687 Earth days) in a Martian year.
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Their calendar year begins with the northward equinox on 1 March, thus imitating the original Roman calendar. Other dates of astronomical significance are: northern solstice, 27 June; southward equinox, 36 September; southern solstice, 12 December; perihelion, 31 November; and aphelion, 31 May.
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Ephemeris for Mars. You are welcome to reproduce the data below for non-profit purposes , providing you credit In-The-Sky.org. It is also available in CSV (i.e. spreadsheet) and plain text format for easy pasting into other programs. All times computed for Redmond (latitude 47.67°; longitude -122.12°) and expressed in Redmond time.
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