It’s Springtime on Mars #Mars #science #planets

I’ve never seen an explanation why, but astronomers selected April 11th, 1955 as 0 degrees for year 1 for a Martian calendar, so springtime of Year 36 has arrived.

Year 36
0 degrees — Spring Equinox — February 06 2021
90 degrees — Summer solstice — August 25 2021
180 degrees — Fall Equinox — February 24 2022
270 degrees — Winter Solstice — July 21 2022
Bob’s Spaces

No, you won’t find this guy tip-toeing through the tulips

Mars is tilted 25.19° to its orbital plane. Compare that to Earth at 23.44° and you’ll see that you’d feel right at home. Well, maybe not so much, given the 2-year long year, low gravity, and lack of atmosphere. Not to mention lack of life. Even if we find evidence of past life or a few microbes hanging on, there will be no tulips. I assume the chart above is for the northern hemisphere. That’s where the earthly British Royal Observatory is located, so it’s sort of a zero point for references. A lot of the structure and nomenclature we (or, me, ’cause I’m American) use in science came to us from Europe, even when the concepts originated elsewhere.

Celebrate the equinox on Mars! Join the first colony in a series that nails it for realism, if I do say so myself.

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