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Mars Weather Reports - Yazata - Feb 20, 2019

Mars weather reports from the Insight lander are now online.

JPL release here:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7337

Weather report for Sunday Feb 17 (the latest one up) is here:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

High of 2 degrees F. Low of -138 degrees F.

(As chilly as Winnipeg!)

Average wind speed 12 mph from the SW.


RE: Mars Weather Reports - C C - Feb 20, 2019

Finally something qualifying more as a legit frigid desert.

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RE: Mars Weather Reports - Yazata - Feb 21, 2019

(Feb 20, 2019 08:46 PM)C C Wrote: Finally something qualifying more as a legit frigid desert.

That's what it is.

The air's pretty thin too. (Calling it "air" is a stretch, since it doesn't have much oxygen.) But just in terms of pressure, it's only about 700-750 pascals, while Earth's average air pressure is about 100,000 pascals. So less than 1%.

Given the thin air and the low temperatures, Elon's Mars colonists are going to have to wear heated pressure suits like light space suits whenever they step outside.

Just in terms of scenery, I guess that you will like Mars if you like the American desert southwest. (Or the Sahara, or the more barren bits of the Australian outback.) I'm a desert-rat kind of guy, having spent lots of time in Nevada (home of America's national supply of nothing).


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