Marsklok

Marsklok
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Participants
Skills	Clock
Status	Active
Niche	Time
Purpose	Electronics, fun, world domination
Tool	No
Location	space wall, zaal 1
Cost
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what it is

This device is a clock. It shows the time on Mars. NASA decided a certain global-mars time which is shown there. It is slightly longer (45 minutes) than on earth.

how it works

The device is an ESP8266 microcontroller. It receives the Earth UTC time via NTP and then converts this to Mars time.

informational links

• https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/how-long-day-on-mars#:~:text=Mars%20is%20a%20planet%20with,than%20a%20day%20on%20Earth.

• https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars