Arcadia Planitia: What time is it on mars?

In the near future when people will be living on mars, we’ll have to start thinking about more than 24 time zones. A day on mars lasts just a little bit longer than here on earth: 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds to be precise. That means that mars won’t have an exact ‘time zone’, since the same time on earth will shift by 37 minutes and 22 seconds on mars each day. Modern clocks are not quite ready to take on the challenge of showing us the progression of this difference.

Arcadia Planitia is a clock that tells the time on your location on earth, as well as on the Arcadia Planitia plateau on mars, which is one of the potential locations for SpaceX’s first mars base. The clock helps you tell time in two locations at once, and in the near future, it could maybe help plan your video messages to your loved ones back home.

Arcadia Planitia is meant as a digital artwork displayed on a digital screen. View it here and add it as a homescreen app to display it on your ipad in fullscreen mode and hang it on your wall: lab.prototypeverything.com/arcadiaplanitia/

It’s also been made available as an NFT