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minus-squareBrokkr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 years 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-up2·2 years agoI wonder if this means eventually Mars will become a tidal locked eyeball planet?
minus-squareGraphine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoThat would only be if it STOPS spinning IIRC. It’s spinning faster.
minus-squareDigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoOh I misunderstood and got it backwards, spinning faster comes with other interesting problems to mitigate against.
More quickly than…?
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.