“Mars 2020 (M20) - Perseverance: NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance project specified Sol 0 as the solar day on which the rover would touch down, which occurred Feb. 18, 2021. During planning, mission controllers specified a mission clock commencing at midnight LMST for a landing site at 77.43°E. Landing occurred at 77.45°E, resulting in a difference of about 5 seconds between the mission clocks and the landing site LMST.”
One of the images in this set was taken at 2025-03-01 18:37:44.42 UTC (copied from the image meta data)
Uhh, what timezone are we talking about here?
Start the reactor, Waaaade
Local Mean Solar Time (LMST)
Read all about Mars time here…
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html
“Mars 2020 (M20) - Perseverance: NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance project specified Sol 0 as the solar day on which the rover would touch down, which occurred Feb. 18, 2021. During planning, mission controllers specified a mission clock commencing at midnight LMST for a landing site at 77.43°E. Landing occurred at 77.45°E, resulting in a difference of about 5 seconds between the mission clocks and the landing site LMST.”
One of the images in this set was taken at 2025-03-01 18:37:44.42 UTC (copied from the image meta data)