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--- blog:articles:general:getting_to_mars [2020/03/22 01:27] – [Conclusion] Phil Ide
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-On Mars, the day is almost 40 minutes longer. Since it is both awkward and confusing to have a clock run on an extra 39 minutes and 53 seconds before resetting, Mars was given its own clock which resets after 24 hours in the same way clocks do here on Earth. To achieve this, the Martian second is stretched a little. A Martian second is approximately 1.02749 universal seconds. This gives the Martian clock the same number of seconds per 'day' as on Earth (86,400 in case you were interested).
+On Mars, the day is almost 40 minutes longer. Since it is both awkward and confusing to have a clock run on an extra 39 minutes and 35 seconds before resetting, Mars was given its own clock which resets after 24 hours in the same way clocks do here on Earth. To achieve this, the Martian second is stretched a little. A Martian second is approximately 1.02749 universal seconds. This gives the Martian clock the same number of seconds per day as on Earth (86,400 in case you were interested).
 Incidentally, when early missions to Mars reached their destinations, the mission teams were issued watches that kept Martian time. They were nothing special, just off-the-shelf-watches adjusted to run a bit slower.