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Is there a New Year's Day on Mars?
by yig 6y ago
Is there a New Year's Day on Mars?
- mbrubeck 6y agoMars scientists have a convention that the year starts at L_s = 0°, which is the vernal equinox in Mars’s northern hemisphere. The next Martian new year by this convention starts on Earth date 2021-02-07, and lasts through 2022-12-25 (Christmas day!).
- nickserv 6y agoInteresting that they didn't go with what we base it in Western society, essentially the winter solstice. That said I've always thought the vernal equinox makes more sense.