Mars24

Version:

5.5.1

Release date:

Tuesday, 13 December, 2005

Home:

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

Categories:

Applications: time

License:

Freeware

Interface:

Java

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Michael Allison, Robert Schmunk

Mars24 is a Java program and browser applet which displays a Mars "sunclock", a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle for a given location on Mars.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. Create a java.exe program object using "-jar X:\complete_path_to\Mars24.jar" for parameters. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Mars24 v. 5.5.1 (13/12/2005)
www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/Mars24J.zip	local copy
Mars24 v. 5.1.3 (14/1/2004)
www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/Mars24J.zip	local copy