The Chaos Courier
Urbi et Valli
News of the Valles Marineris
Photomosaic: Viking Orbiter: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Future news from small town Mars
The Sunday Candor Chaos Courier
The fictional future news from small town Mars begins around the summer solstice of the
Martian year 101, or
early February 2145 on Earth, with Year One equivalent to 1955.
(Mars
date converter).
Please note, it's all fiction and all the characters are fictional.
The Chaos Courier covers
the news of settlements in the more-than-3,000-kilometer
Valles Marineris.
The chief settlement is Urbs Vallis (Valley City) in Tithonium Chasma, which is known for
its habitational tube, at the western end of the Great Valley.
Each Martian year is about 687 Earth days, but 668 Mars sols, which are a littler longer than
earth days.
(Mars Seasons
and Solar Longitude)
Since, our Martians have kept the convention of 12 months, they are using the old Earth names
for convenience, with
each month spanning 30 degrees of solar longitude.
The more eccentric orbit of Mars means the months range in duration from 46 sols in month 9
(September), when Mars moves closest to the sun,
to 67 sols in March when Mars ranges farthest from the sun. We're rounding the months off to avoid
fractional days. Our Martians will have an off-the-calendar, end-of-year celebration to even it all out
when necessary.
The settlements we cover range from Noctis Labyrinthus at the western end of the Valley
to Orson Welles crater in Xanthe Terra on the Martian equator and the Shalbatana Valley,
to the north and east
of Coprates Chasma, and the Pontus Caelestis orbital, better known as the Mars Carousel.
The editors especially thank the authors of the classic,
"The Atlas of Mars"
(Cambridge University Press, August 2019, Mars 35)
The header photo is a mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars from 2,500 km above
the surface taken by the
Viking Orbiter.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Candor Chaos News Bureaux
Pontus Caelestis (Mars Carousel orbital), Alfwinna Webster
Noctis Labyrinthus, Eun Isil
Ares Port, Mei Aonia
Urbs Vallis Tithonium Chasma (The City), Mirihi Merced, Susmita O'Reilly
Ius Chasma, Kenzo Hsing
Melas Chasma, Alade Jama
Coprates Chasma, Sorcha Kaisei
Orson Welles, Jenna Maris
Editor, M.G. Phádraig
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