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Allison 1997

Allison, M. (1997). Accurate analytic representations of solar time and seasons on Mars with applications to the Pathfinder/Surveyor missions. Geophysical Research Letters 24: doi: 10.1029/97GL01950. issn: 0094-8276.

Efficient analytic recipes are presented for a moderately accurate, closed-form calculation of the areocentric longitude (Ls), analemmic equation of time, and solar hour angles on Mars, along with an approximate recovery of the Viking Local Lander Time. The adopted fit to the fictitious mean sun implies a Mars tropical orbit period of 686.9725d.¿ 1997 American Geophysical Union

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Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, General or miscellaneous, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Orbital and rotational dynamics, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Meteorology, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Celestial mechanics

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Geophysical Research Letters
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