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On Earth and Mars its very similar. Some high-speed transfer orbits could make the trip in.
Average Distance from Sun.
Mars length of day. NASAs real-time portal for Mars exploration featuring the latest news images and discoveries from the Red Planet. Average Distance from Sun. 142 million miles.
23 hours 56 minutes. 24 hours 37 minutes. How long is a day and year on Mars.
Mars is a planet with a very similar daily cycle to the Earth. Its sidereal day is 24 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds and its solar day 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds. A Martian day referred to as sol is therefore approximately 40 minutes longer than a.
On Mars a solar day lasts 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds. Rounding that out we say that a day here on Earth works out to an even 24 hours while on Mars a. We can write a paragraph about how long days last on other planets.
On Mercury a day lasts 1408 hours and on Venus it lasts 5832 hours. On Earth and Mars its very similar. Earth takes 24 hours to complete one spin and Mars takes 25 hours.
Marss equatorial radius is 33962km whereas Earths equatorial radius is 6378137km. You might tihink that because Earth is roughly twice the equatorial radius as Mars then the day is longer. Well the day is longer but not by twice.
A Martian day is 246597 hours. It is just slightly longer than an Earth days length of 24 hours. The length of a Martian day and Earth Julian day differ by a ratio of 1027491252 so we divide by that.
By convention to keep the MSD positive going back to midday December 29th 1873 we add 44796. There is a slight adjustment as the midnights werent perfectly aligned. The Mars24 site gives a more up-to-date 000096.
The typical time during Marss closest approach to the Earth every 16 years is about 260 days. Again the details depend on the rocket velocity and the closeness of the planets but 260 days is the number I hear most often give or take 10 days. Some high-speed transfer orbits could make the trip in.
In 2003 Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60000 years. The Hubble Space Telescope took the opportunity to observe the red planet while it was only 34647420 miles 55757930 km. At its equator Mars has a diameter of 4222 miles 6794 km but from pole to pole the diameter is 4196 miles 6752 km.
Mars radius is of course half of planets diameter. 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. Mars the Red Planet Mars once had liquid water on the surface and could have supported life.
We dont know how it. Mars rotation is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds if you are interested in the solar day or 24 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds for the sidereal day. The Earth zips around the Sun at about 67000 miles per hour making a full revolution in about 365 days - one year on Earth.
Mars is a little slower and farther from the sun so a full circuit takes 687 Earth days - or one Mars year. That longer year means longer seasons too. On Mars a solar day lasts 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
Rounding that out we say that a day here on Earth works out to an even 24 hours while on Mars a. Centuries of assiduous studies by earthbound observers extended by spacecraft observations since the 1960s have revealed that Mars is similar to Earth in many ways. Like Earth Mars has clouds winds a roughly 24-hour day seasonal weather patterns polar ice caps volcanoes canyons and other familiar features.