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They found the planet’s rotation is accelerating by about 4 milliarcseconds per year — corresponding to a shortening of the length of the Martian day by a fraction of a millisecond per year.
Mars' spin is speeding up a hair fast enough to shorten the length of a day by a fraction of a millisecond per year. Researchers explain how they precisely measured Mars' rotation.
The Red Planet's spin is speeding up a hair fast enough to shorten the length of a Martian day by a fraction of a millisecond per year. NASA's Mars Insight lander died a few months ago, no longer able to generate power from its dust-covered solar panels, but scientists continue to learn new things about Earth's neighboring planet from the data it collected. One of the latest revelations from the lander is on Mars' unique jitterbug: how fast the planet rotates and wobbles. Researchers measured Mars' rotation over 100 million miles away in space using one of Insight'...
NASA’S InSight Mars Lander provides precision details on the red planet’s accelerating rotation and how Mars is wobbling on its axis over a period of days and months.
Martian Mystery Mars, as our closest planetary neighbor in the Solar System, has many mysteries—from the tantalizing traces of liquid water on its surface to questions about the existence of alien microbes lying in wait in the red dust of the planet's surface. Well, add another weird thing about Mars that's a complete mystery. The […]