date.julian2season — Conversion from Julian to Mars Season

The date.julian2season module provides functionality for the conversion between Julian date and Martian season

New in version 0.1.0.

plio.date.julian2season.j2season(_date, year=686.9799625, marsday=8.5875, startdate=144.61074994)[source]

Ls date to a KRC season to determine which KRC seasonal lookup tables to use

Parameters

_date (float) –

The input date to be converted

yearfloat

The mars year to search within

marsdayfloat

The length of a Mars day

startdatefloat

The zero, start date

Returns

  • startseason (int) – The integer index to the start season

  • stopseasons (int) – The integer index to the stop season