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1 days and 3 hours ago
 Category: Lifestyle
Released: Nov 29, 2008
Price: $1.99
Description:
We know length of 24 hours as a sense because we live on the earth. Then, if we live on planets
other than the earth? On the Mercury, morning will come in about 15 days, night will come in about
44 days, a day will end in about 59 days. On the Venus, morning will come in about 61 days, night
will come in about 182 days, a day will end in about 243 days. On the Moon, morning will come in
about 7 days, night will come in about 20 days, a day will end in about 27 days. On the Mars,
morning will come in about 6.15 hours, night will come in about 18.45 hours, a day will end in
about 24.6 hours. On the Jupiter, morning will come in about 2.5 hours, night will come in about
7.5 hours, a day will end in about 10 hours. On the Saturn, morning will come in about 2.6 hours,
night will come in about 7.9 hours, a day will end in about 10.5 hours. On the Uranus, morning will
come in about 4.3 hours, night will come in about 12.9 hours, a day will end in about 17.2 hours.
On the Neptune, morning will come in about 4 hours, night will come in about 12 hours, a day will
end in about 16 hours. On the Pluto, morning will come in about 1.6 days, night will come in about
4.8 days, a day will end in about 6.4 days. If the planet changes, length of a day changes, and it
could indicate that time of each planet passes at each time. This application simulates time
corresponding to the rotation period of each planet. Will you feel time different from usually?
Website: http://null-null.net/iphone-dev/
Support Website: http://null-null.net/iphone-dev/
Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application
developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.
Get it on iTunes: PlanetClock |
Autoblog -
1 days and 3 hours ago
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365 tomorrows -
1 days and 10 hours ago
Author : Glenn Blakeslee
He became part of the Grand Flyby Mission midway through the third decade of his life, as a
junior designer on the Flight Data Subsystem team.
He found himself at the leading edge of spacecraft design, and worked with the members of his
team to build a robust device capable of data-handling functions for a long-term project.
He went to the Cape for the liftoff, was amazed to see the spacecraft climb on a column of flame.
He met a girl on a Florida beach, and a year later married her.
The next years were heady times, as the spacecraft arrowed its way to the outer planets: Jupiter
and her moons were imaged, and Saturn and her rings fell to the instruments aboard the
spacecraft. He lived as fast as the data coming in, speeding the crowding freeways of LA in his
sports car and drinking more than usual. He had an affair, which his wife did not discover.
The spacecraft’s mission was extended, and he found himself no longer a junior engineer but
in charge of a team. The FDS was his baby, he the hands-down expert. The spacecraft was the first
to perform a flyby of Uranus, and the first to photograph Neptune.
In the fifth decade of his life, he found himself settling down. His fast car had long ago been
traded for a family-style sedan. He spent hours at work designing methods for upgrading the
spacecraft, and when he and his team succeeded the job of the spacecraft changed again, to a
long-duration interstellar mission. His wife learned of his dalliance a decade earlier and, bored
and facing an empty nest, divorced him.
Some of the instruments on the spacecraft —those with no use in the sparser
stretches of the solar system— were shut down, and though the incoming data
never ceased it did slow. He found his staff reduced, which was expected. He found his life had
settled into a slow rhythm —collecting data from the far-off spacecraft,
sending updates across the expanse, sleeping and eating.
One year after the spacecraft crossed the termination shock —the inexorable
slowing of the solar wind— he suffered a heart attack. He took time off but
kept charge of his small team. With doctors orders he was back on the job, but charged with
shutting down two more of the spacecraft’s systems. Three years later he retired.
He kept a firm hand on the spacecraft’s systems as a part-time consultant. With only two
instruments still collecting data, the mission had collapsed to a terminal phase. They held a
party when the spacecraft entered heliopause, and it reminded him of the good old days, when the
spacecraft was running fast through the outer planets and the data stream held discovery after
discovery. Now past the edge of the solar system, the spacecraft would coast quietly forever.
It became apparent to him that he and the spacecraft had led parallel lives, from a fast and
fiery launch to a slow cold end.
Late in his eighth decade he found that his time in the sun had created a defect in his skin
which, in the darkness and solitude of his late age, would probably end his life. So, too, the
spacecraft: its time in the sun had ended, the reactors that powered it all but discharged. But
it sped on, and so might he.
The rapid telemetry of his heart would slow, the data stream of his brain would trickle to a stop
—but he knew, somehow, that he and the spacecraft would ride together, into
the light of lesser suns.
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