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Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds
Space.com ^ | 10/1/2012 | Space.com staff

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; mars
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To: FreedomOfExpression

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!!


21 posted on 10/07/2012 2:35:24 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
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22 posted on 10/07/2012 4:52:07 AM PDT by greenhornet68
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To: FreedomOfExpression

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.


23 posted on 10/07/2012 4:54:06 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
Global warming here, to. just look at this poor polar bear.

"Hunter Jeremiah Johnson comforts a polar bear that had collapsed from heat exhaustion before he could shoot it."

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See the whole sad story at:

http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-heat.htm ;)

24 posted on 10/07/2012 5:49:42 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: FreedomOfExpression

We need to send Al Gore to Mars to investigate....


25 posted on 10/07/2012 5:56:06 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

Perhaps it’s the exhaust from Curiosity causing a greenhouse effect.


26 posted on 10/07/2012 4:50:07 PM PDT by JPJones (I wish the buck(s) would stop with me.)
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To: dynachrome

LOL, that was a touching story.


27 posted on 10/07/2012 6:21:32 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: JPJones
Perhaps it’s the exhaust from Curiosity causing a greenhouse effect.

All those probes and rovers are starting to have an effect.

28 posted on 10/07/2012 6:33:01 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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