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--- blog:aardvaark:mars_weather:start [2022/09/11 10:33] – created Phil Ide
+++ blog:aardvaark:mars_weather:start [2025/07/19 10:58] (current) – [Current Location of Mars] Phil Ide
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 ====== Mars Weather ======
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 | [[.:weather_percy|Perseverance Rover]] |
 | Curiosity data to come |
+{{ :blog:aardvaark:solar_system.png |Current positions of Earth and Mars}}
+<html><small></html>Image courtesy of https://in-the-sky.org and © Dominic Ford<html></small></html>
+This image is updated on the 1st and 7th of every month, and every Saturday. A daily update is available on the [[:blog:articles:info:mars_solar_conjunction|Mars Solar Conjunctions]] page when such events are active.
+You can check the position of Mars vs the Sun and Earth for any date here:
+https://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php?obj=P4\\
 Follow **[[blog:articles:info:mars_solar_conjunction|Conjunctions]]** as they occur.
+[{{:blog:aardvaark:mars_weather:mars_mission_locations.png?nolink&800|Locations of Mars Landers. NSYT=Insight, M20=Perseverance, MSL=Curiosity}}]
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 If you are wondering why the sols on the clocks don't match the sols in the weather reports, the weather reports refer to mission time, rather than the start of the Martian year. Besides being a convenient way to track mission duration, it guarantees two data points in different years have unique sol counts.
-===== Current Location of Mars =====
+ ===== Current Location of Mars =====
 <html><div id="season">no data</div></html>
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 closeApproach = [
           new Date('2020-10-06'),
-          new Date('2022-12-08')
+          new Date('2022-12-08'),
+          new Date('2025-01-16'),
+          new Date('2027-02-19')
         ];
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           new Date('2020-08-03'), // perihelion
           new Date('2021-07-13'),
-          new Date('2022-06-21'),
+          new Date('2022-06-21'), // perihelion
-          new Date('2022-12-01')    // perihelion
+          new Date('2025-04-16'),
+          new Date('2026-03-26'), // perihelion
+          new Date('2027-03-02')
     ];
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-{{ :blog:aardvaark:solar_system.png?nolink |Current positions of Earth and Mars}}
-<html><small></html>Image courtesy of https://in-the-sky.org and © Dominic Ford<html></small></html>
-This image is updated once per week. A daily update is available on the [[:blog:articles:info:mars_solar_conjunction|Mars Solar Conjunctions]] page when such events are active.
-You can check the position of Mars vs the Sun and Earth for any date here:
-https://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php?obj=P4\\
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