Mars is spinning faster and faster, with the length of its days decreasing incrementally every year. ... Current Mars days, also known as Sols, last 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds.

The length of Mars' day is shortening by three-quarters of a millisecond each year as the planet’s rotation spins up, according to new results from NASA's InSight lander. To get these incredibly ...

The M-MATISSE project, which stands for Mars Magnetosphere ATmosphere Ionosphere and Space-weather SciencE, began in 2021, ...

Researchers found that Mars’ rotation is accelerating by about 4 milliarcseconds per year — making the length of a Martian day shorter by a fraction of a millisecond per year.

All the same, seeing the string of 25 images taken between 5:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. local time on November 8 gives you the soothing feeling of spending a day hanging out on Mars with Curiosity ...

Supporting Pieris and Hayne's "sunny days" model are findings from NASA's now-deactivated Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited the Red Planet between 1997 and 2006, and was on hand to witness the ...

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the Red Planet has the benefit of a 24-hour day – about 37 minut… ...

Ultrasonic tools could one day track wind speeds on Mars. 3D readings of ... This turbulence is generated by eddies and updrafts of relatively warm gas heated by the planet’s surface during the day.