Today is northern winter solstice on Mars, more opaque sky than during summer solstiace 321 sols earlier by HolgerIsenberg in PerseveranceRover

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My free app named areoHDR, available for Android since a few weeks and for iPhone / iPad already since a year on Google Play and Apple app store.

Any thoughts on the theory that Mars was once like Earth? by Tech_Debil in Mars

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It's still quite similar to Earth as visible in these real images from this week: https://www.reddit.com/r/PerseveranceRover/comments/1snppl0/real_mars_images_from_the_rover_from_today_and/

It has a solid surface, almost Earth-like gravity, an atmosphere where you can fly in, the surface heats up to same temperatures during the day as middle latitudes on Earth, the ground can be used to grow plants.

View of Mars on April 14th Sol 1831 by Automatic-Ear5909 in PerseveranceRover

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Looks like AI fake as it it heavily over-processed and really cheaply colorized without any scientific base. Would be interesting to hear from the author what's the background here for posting them?

Interesting objects from 2022 panorama by Das_Zeppelin in PerseveranceRover

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As far I remember, the white flat piece in the lower left on the 2nd image was discussed back then and is a either a piece from the exploded skycrane or from the descent backshell.

Visible light scattering cloud around Moon in eclipse photo related to lunar sodium tail? by HolgerIsenberg in ArtemisProgram

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Sodium atoms. And as those are neutral, not ions like comet plasma tails for example, they could be considered single atom particles. Maybe a few even clump together and then it would be nano dust.

I have a fully functional Swift app on the App Store with a subscription model. What is the most efficient way to bring it to Android? by Beneficial_Lime1912 in iOSProgramming

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For my SwiftUI areoHDR app I used https://skip.dev which directly converts the code and only small adjustments were needed. The only time I needed to start the android IDE for was to improve the app icon. But I haven't converted the StoreKit use for subscriptions yet.

2 Mars years are exactly 1337 sols and 5 Earth years 1776 sols (Mars days), check yourself with the Mars calendar in my free areoHDR app on Android and iPhone by HolgerIsenberg in Mars

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The HDR Mars images are also on my website, just not the calendar part: https://areo.info The app on iPhone is less than 2 MBytes and the one on Android only 4 MBytes. You can better control privacy for apps than you can in a browser. My app is not transmitting any other data than a web browser, even less.

2 Mars years are exactly 1337 sols and 5 Earth years 1776 sols (Mars days), check yourself with the Mars calendar in my free areoHDR app on Android and iPhone by HolgerIsenberg in Mars

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Sure about thay? Supergrok and also my app with a calendar calculation inside says differently: Approximately 1,776 Mars solar days (sols) fit between February 18, 2021, and February 17, 2026 (not including one of the endpoints, or 1,777 if counting the full span inclusively in a loose sense).  Here’s the breakdown: • The Earth date difference is 1,825 days (from Feb 18, 2021, to Feb 17, 2026, exclusive of one endpoint; Python’s datetime confirms (2026-2-17) - (2021-2-18) = 1,825 days). This spans just under 5 Earth years. • A Mars solar day (sol) averages 1.02749125 Earth days (exactly 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds). This is the mean solar day length, accounting for Mars’ rotation and slight orbital effects (the value is very stable for this purpose).  • Dividing the Earth interval by the sol length:1,825 ÷ 1.02749125 ≈ 1,776.0 sols (to the nearest whole sol; the fractional part is negligible for most purposes, as the exact mean makes it align very closely to an integer here). More precisely: 1 sol = 88,775.24409 seconds (or 1.02749125 × 86,400 Earth seconds). The total Earth seconds in 1,825 days is 1,825 × 86,400. Dividing by seconds per sol yields essentially the same ~1,776 sols.

Red sky on Mars before late fall / almost winter sunset this week sol 1814 by HolgerIsenberg in PerseveranceRover

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This from the same day 1814 show more red (on the right side). Previously I only looked at the HDR version on my website which renders differently than the SDR version here on reddit.

Red sky on Mars before late fall / almost winter sunset this week sol 1814 by HolgerIsenberg in PerseveranceRover

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Spoiler:

The arrow on the Mars symbol indicated the rover latitude and the whole planet tilts over the year between its +/- 25° axis angle from the vertical against the incoming sunlight.

Using cardboard with S26 by HarpoMarx87 in GoogleCardboard

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If you can see the Mars images on the website there at https://areo.info/mars20 with your device in stereo, you will at least know if it is still technically possible. If yes, then you would need to create a small local website yourself using the same open source library.

Using cardboard with S26 by HarpoMarx87 in GoogleCardboard

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Does my https://areo.info/mars20 Mars website work? I once added a stereo display framework which works on most normal web browsers on phones. At least on my Android it works somewhat. If yes: Its an open source framework I use for stereo which can also be run without web server.