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Happy New Year, Mars! Feb. 7 marks what could be a future Martian holiday – CNET
If you plan to move to Mars, you’ll want to start keeping track of the Martian New Year.
This ESA infographic explains how the new year works on Mars.
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Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 on Earth is a big deal for a lot of humans. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. But it’s also a big deal on Mars because it marks the Martian New Year, an event that happens much less often than on our own planet.
As we look ahead to someday sending humans to Mars, we should start thinking more about Martian holidays. A year on the red planet lasts 687 Earth days, so we would need a lot less champagne and noisemakers than…
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