Posted on 10/06/2012 9:54:06 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet.
Curiosity's onboard weather station, which is called the Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS), has measured air temperatures as high as 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) in the afternoon. And temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.
These measurements are a bit unexpected, since it's still late winter at Gale Crater, the spot 4.5 degrees south of the Martian equator where Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5.
"That we are seeing temperatures this warm already during the day is a surprise and very interesting," Felipe Gómez, of the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
True, but don`tcha know Algore says that`s due to global warming, too? And now, something REALLY has to be done immediately, because all this damage to the climate is affecting other planets!!! Shame on us humans!!
Mars has an axis of rotation roughly the same as earth. (25 degrees compared with 22 degrees for earth). 4.5 degrees of latitude is much closer to the equator then Hawaii is (20 degrees). I would expect virtually no dofference between winter and summer there, as is seen in Hawaii.
"Hunter Jeremiah Johnson comforts a polar bear that had collapsed from heat exhaustion before he could shoot it."
See the whole sad story at:
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-heat.htm ;)
We need to send Al Gore to Mars to investigate....
Perhaps it’s the exhaust from Curiosity causing a greenhouse effect.
LOL, that was a touching story.
All those probes and rovers are starting to have an effect.
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