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Originally Posted by Kebsis
Since the Earth and Mars orbit the sun at different rates (they do, right?) wouldn't an astronaut that goes to Mars encounter some of the strange relativistic effects of being there? Like when they got back wouldn't less time have passed for them then for us?
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Their atomic clocks will tick a little faster on Mars than on the earth, but they won’t notice any biological age difference. Anyway, humans go by thermodynamic time, not atomic time. I assume they will be in nice warm space suits while on Mars. The orbit speed around the sun doesn’t have anything to do with this.