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The Martian calendar used in this simulation is based on Shaun Moss's "Areosynchronous Calendar". http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/moss/Virtual_Mars/Calendar.aspThe Areosynchronous Calendar is heavily derived from Tom Gangale's Darian Calendar. http://pweb.jps.net/~tgangale/mars/mst/darian.htmThe Martian year is referred to as an "orbit". It is 668.5921 Martian days ("Sols") long. In the calendar, about half of the orbits are 668 Sols long, and the other half are "leap-orbits" with 669 Sols. See the Areosynchronous Calendar for complete details on leap-orbits.The orbit has 24 months with either 27 or 28 Sols:Month Name Sols-------------------------Adir 28Bora 28Coan 28Deti 28Edal 28Flo 27Geor 28Heliba 28Idanon 28Jowani 28Kireal 28Larno 27Medior 28Neturima 28Ozulikan 28Pasurabi 28Rudiakel 28Safundo 27Tiunor 28Ulasja 28Vadeun 28Wakumi 28Xetual 28Zungo 27 or 18 if a leap-orbitThe month names are based on Frans Blok's "The Rotterdam System". http://www.geocities.com/fra_nl/rotmonth.htmlThere are seven sols in a Martian week with the following week names:Heliosol Neriosol Libersol Terrasol Venusol Mercusol JovisolEvery Martian month has 4 weeks. On months with 27 Sols, the last week only has six Sols and Jovisol is clipped. This allows the first Sol of every month and every orbit to be Heliosol.The calendar uses metric time for Mars with the Sol broken up into the following common units:decasol = 1/10 Sol = 2.46 Earth hours centisol = 1/100 Sol = 14.8 Earth minutes millisol = 1/1000 Sol = 1.48 Earth minutesMartian time of the Sol is usually written in three-digit millisol format to three decimal points. ex. from "000.000" to "999.999".The common timestamp format for Mars date/time is orbit-month-sol:millisols. ex. "17-Adir-03:523.234"The time of the day is based on Bruce Mackenzie's "Metric Time for Mars". http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/other/mcknzfrm.htm