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Mars24 is an awesome, free software only available for Mac, belonging to the category Science & Education with subcategory Astronomy.

More about Mars24

Since we added this program to our catalog in 2005, it has achieved 879 downloads, and last week it achieved 1 download.

About the download, Mars24 is a light program that takes up less storage than most software in the section Science & Education. It’s a program very heavily used in countries such as Pakistan and Germany.

This program is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and former versions, and it is only available in English. Its current version is X 5.5.1 and it has been updated on 10/18/2006.

User may specify an MJD when setting clock to a fixed Earth time.UTC to TT conversion uses leap-second table lookup where possible rather than always use parametric formula.Switched to ImageIO for saving PNG images to disk.

Changes

• User may specify an MJD when setting clock to a fixed Earth time.UTC to TT conversion uses leap-second table lookup where possible rather than always use parametric formula.Switched to ImageIO for saving PNG images to disk.

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.