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- We're on a earth calendar,
mars is on a mars calendar.

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A mars year is 687 days

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and so Mars Pennsylvania is
celebrating the Mars New Year.

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- This celebration is our
community coming together

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in celebration of learning
about mars as a planet

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and how humans explore it.

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Martian time keeping is
incredibly important because

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we have to be able to
navigate our space craft.

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We need to be able to send
messages to our space craft

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so that we can fulfill
our science missions

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on the surface of mars.

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- I, in fact, have a mars watch

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that tells me time of day,

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where the Rover Curiosity is on mars.

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Time of day makes a difference
when you're taking pictures.

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It has a rock record on the
surface that's ancient, ancient.

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So life started on this planet

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at least 3.5 billion years ago.

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There are rocks on the planet of mars

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from that period and earlier.

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It can tell us what was going on

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in the solar system when
life started on our planet.

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- It's so important to learn about mars

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because what we learn about mars

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is what we learn about earth.

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It's understanding our origins.

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It's understanding our sister planet

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and it's understanding how humans

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could survive in different atmospheres.

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There are so many ways to
teach the science of mars,

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to get involved and to interact, to read,

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to learn, to talk to people.

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There are so many people here
that are experts in the field.

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NASA is certainly inspiring
future generations.

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These types of events are so critical

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to next generations understanding

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how important it is for humans
to continue exploration.