JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoMars is rotating more quickly, NASA mission finds | CNNwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down14cross-posted to: nasa@lemmy.world
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minus-squareBrokkr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoThe headline sucks, but the answer is in the 2nd paragraph. Days are getting shorter by less then 1ms per year.
minus-squareDigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI wonder if this means eventually Mars will become a tidal locked eyeball planet?
minus-squareGraphine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThat would only be if it STOPS spinning IIRC. It’s spinning faster.
minus-squareDigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOh I misunderstood and got it backwards, spinning faster comes with other interesting problems to mitigate against.
The headline sucks, but the answer is in the 2nd paragraph.
Days are getting shorter by less then 1ms per year.
I wonder if this means eventually Mars will become a tidal locked eyeball planet?
That would only be if it STOPS spinning IIRC.
It’s spinning faster.
Oh I misunderstood and got it backwards, spinning faster comes with other interesting problems to mitigate against.