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the
optimal timekeeping system for Mars
developed by the Mars Time Group in
2001
Summary of Units
| 1 second |
= |
9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the
transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of
the cesium 133 atom |
| |
| 1 minute |
= |
60 seconds |
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| 1 hour |
= |
60 minutes |
| |
= |
3600 seconds |
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| 1 beat |
= |
0.8877524409 seconds |
| |
= |
8,160,781,292 periods of the radiation corresponding to the
transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of
the cesium 133 atom |
| |
| 1 mil |
= |
100 beats |
| |
= |
0.001 sols |
| |
= |
88.77524409 seconds |
| |
= |
1.479587402 minutes |
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| 1 zode |
= |
10,000 beats |
| |
= |
100 mils |
| |
= |
0.1 sols |
| |
= |
8877.524409 seconds |
| |
= |
2.465979003 hours |
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| 1 sol |
= |
the average duration of a Martian solar day |
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= |
100,000 beats |
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= |
1000 mils |
| |
= |
10 zodes |
| |
= |
88,775.24409 seconds |
| |
= |
24.65979003 hours |
| |
= |
24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.24409 seconds |
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= |
1.027491251 days |
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| 1 Mars week |
= |
7 sols |
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= |
1.027491251 Earth weeks |
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| 1 Mars month |
= |
28 sols (except for the 24th month, which has 24 or 25) |
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= |
4 Mars weeks (except for the 24th month, which has 3.5) |
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= |
0.94 Earth months |
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= |
0.97 Lunar months |
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| 1 calendar mir |
= |
the average difference between two northern vernal
equinoxes |
| |
= |
668.5906 sols |
| |
= |
95.51294 Mars weeks |
| |
= |
24 Mars months |
| |
= |
1.88086424 years |
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| 1 dekamir |
= |
10 mirs |
| |
= |
18.8086424 years |
| |
= |
1.88086424 decades |
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| 1 hectomir |
= |
100 mirs |
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= |
188.086424 years |
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= |
1.88086424 centuries |
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| 1 kilomir |
= |
1000 mirs |
| |
= |
1880.86424 years |
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= |
1.88086424 millenia |
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