Science
Happy Mars New Year! – WRAL.com
The Spring Equinox on Mars marks the beginning of a new year on Mars and a busy time for arrivals at the red planet.
By Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador
We could all use a reason to celebrate, how about New Year’s Day… on Mars?
Today is the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere of Mars, where the Viking, Phoenix, Pathfinder, and InSight missions landed.
Scientists studying dust storms using data the Viking missions needed a way to compare conditions from (Martian) year to year. They selected the northern hemisphere’s Spring Equinox when the solar longitude, or Mars-Sun angle, of 0° as the beginning of the Martian…
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