NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025 (infosec.pub)

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[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

4:27 a.m. local time

Uhh, what timezone are we talking about here?

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Local Mean Solar Time (LMST)

Read all about Mars time here...

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html

"Mars 2020 (M20) - Perseverance: NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance project specified Sol 0 as the solar day on which the rover would touch down, which occurred Feb. 18, 2021. During planning, mission controllers specified a mission clock commencing at midnight LMST for a landing site at 77.43°E. Landing occurred at 77.45°E, resulting in a difference of about 5 seconds between the mission clocks and the landing site LMST."

One of the images in this set was taken at 2025-03-01 18:37:44.42 UTC (copied from the image meta data)

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Start the reactor, Waaaade