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Mars24 6.0.3

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Sunclock of Mars, displays orbital positions and more. Free

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NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Mars24 is a Java-based application which displays a Mars "sunclock", a graphical representation of Mars showing the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in a 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the position of Sun and Earth for a given location on Mars.

What's New

Version 6.0.3:

Mars Phoenix landing set to 234.24845°E 68.21878°N. Note that is about 1/4° east of planned landing site, and so adds an extra minute to difference between PHX mission time and Local Mean Solar Time (LMST) at landing site.
Inserted leap second to be added to UTC on morning of Jan. 1, 2009, into time calculation algorithm.
Mars Phoenix panorama image replaced with full-color image released by Phoenix project on July 31.
Some tweaks to control interface appearance, most notably to sunclock landmarks table.

Version 6.0.3:

Mars Phoenix landing set to 234.24845°E 68.21878°N. Note that is about 1/4° east of planned landing site, and so adds an extra minute to difference between PHX mission time and Local Mean Solar Time (LMST) at landing site.
Inserted leap second to be added to UTC on morning of Jan. 1, 2009, into time calculation algorithm.
Mars Phoenix panorama image replaced with more...

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Java 1.5 or later.

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Anonymous reviewed on 15 Nov 2004

Doesn't launch on OS X 10.3.6.

[Version 5.2.3]

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Anonymous commented on 15 Nov 2004

What version of StuffIt Expander are you using to uncompress? The help page says there's a conflict between the compressed package and Expander 8.0.0 that can cause this.

Bart6 replied on 21 Sep 2005

Use the stuffIt Expander in Utilitys that should work.

Anonymous reviewed on 21 Feb 2004

I can see my house!

[Version 5.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 12 Jan 2004

Cool! It seems that some people at NASA are using Macs! Nice little program - it's fun to see where all the different mars probes landed - and view all the different projections..

Check it out.

[Version 5.1.2]

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Anonymous commented on 17 Jan 2004

I hapened to catch the PBS program NOVA about the Mars rovers. In many scenes of engineers and scientists sitting around tables discussing aspects of the project i could see the Apple logo on the lids of laptops, and in at least one scene someone was typing information on a silver Powerbook!

Hey, these people are at the cutting edge. What else would they own? :)

sandrift replied on 01 Dec 2005

I am a Mars scientist, and I can confirm that many of us do prefer Macs; it's not at all uncommon to see as many Macs as (or more than) PCs at professional meetings. See my reply to the next comment down as to the utility of this expenditure of tax dollars...