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>>16179686
It's even worse: at Mars' aphelion, the southern hemispere is in its winter, so the southern hemisphere has harsher seasons in general. The winters in the south are brutal, even for mars, and while the summers are very hot, they're also very short. Even worse again, the end of southern summer is dust storm season, which lowers temps by quite a bit and sometimes spreads to the north.
The south is shit.
>>16179179
Northern spring/southern fall is actually the longest season (it lasts 194 sols). Northern fall (shortest season) is about 52 sols shorter.
>>16179695
the better way is to do away with months (months are lunar, no utility on mars) and use intervals of solar longitude (Ls), which is relatively easy to locally calculate even if you've lost track of time. Rover operators use this, so it seems pretty useful.