What time is it on Mars?
The "time on Mars" and the "time at New Albion" are different!
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- 00:00
- [Foreboding orchestral music]
- [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
- 00:22
- [Music]
- [Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory)]
- 00:32
- This is New Albion on Mars
- 00:36
- Time at New Albion is synchronised with UTC
- (Coordinated Universal Time)
- 00:42
- - often referred to as GMT
- (Greenwich Mean Time) - on Earth.
- 00:48
- New Albion clocks are aligned with UK clocks from UK
- 00:52
- Autumn to Spring, and an hour behind from Spring to Autumn
- 00:56
- during BST (British Summer Time).
- 01:00
- New Albion's day-night cycle and
- 01:02
- seasonal variation are entirely artificial.
- 01:07
- Lights in the roof of residential compartments
- 01:10
- brighten from around 6am.
- 01:12
- Compartment lighting fades to darkness again around 6pm.
- 01:18
- During the New Albion 'night'
- 01:20
- compartments are almost completely dark,
- 01:23
- except for some emergency lighting and indicators.
- 01:28
- The surface of Mars has its own time of day - and season -
- 01:31
- of which most colonists are completely unaware.
- 01:36
- Mars surface conditions are not discernible from
- 01:39
- inside New Albion, except by camera feed.
- 01:43
- Colonists venturing onto the Martian surface are likely to bring
- 01:46
- their own artificial light, so may have only a rough idea
- 01:50
- what time of sol (a Mars solar day) it is.
- 01:55
- The time at New Albion and the "time on Mars"
- are two very different things!
- 02:03
- [Dissonant clashing orchestral music]
- [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
- 02:20
- [orchestral music continues]