[LEAPSECS] Target of Opportunity

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Sat May 17 10:34:12 EDT 2014


The Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2014 May 16 demonstrates that day means the same thing on Mars as on Earth:

	http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140516.html

One supposes that if leap seconds cease and the meaning of "day" becomes ambiguous that we could instead start using the word "sol" as on Mars.

Rob
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"If you haven't found something strange during the sol, it hasn't been much of a sol." - John Archibald Wheeler


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