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Martian calendar - info
« on: September 23, 2010, 06:58:57 PM »

Quote from: Mars Simulation Project
The Martian calendar used in this simulation is based on Shaun Moss's "Areosynchronous Calendar". http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/moss/Virtual_Mars/Calendar.asp
The Areosynchronous Calendar is heavily derived from Tom Gangale's Darian Calendar. http://pweb.jps.net/~tgangale/mars/mst/darian.htm
The 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
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Adir                 28
Bora                 28
Coan                 28
Deti                 28
Edal                 28
Flo                  27
Geor                 28
Heliba               28
Idanon               28
Jowani               28
Kireal               28
Larno                27
Medior               28
Neturima             28
Ozulikan             28
Pasurabi             28
Rudiakel             28
Safundo              27
Tiunor               28
Ulasja               28
Vadeun               28
Wakumi               28
Xetual               28
Zungo                27 or 18 if a leap-orbit
The month names are based on Frans Blok's "The Rotterdam System". http://www.geocities.com/fra_nl/rotmonth.html
There are seven sols in a Martian week with the following week names:
Heliosol Neriosol Libersol Terrasol Venusol Mercusol Jovisol
Every 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 minutes
Martian 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

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