Al – Journal of Riyadh A new tool reveals the weather on Mars



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NASA has unveiled a new tool for anyone from around the world to check the weather on Mars (known as the Red Planet).

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) announced Tuesday that NASA's Insight probe was providing daily weather reports, which were published on the Internet later, as well as the maximum temperature recorded on Mars last Sunday – 17 degrees Celsius, while the lowest grade reached -95 ° C

The Insight probe is also equipped with the first magnetometer, which will be placed on the surface of another planet. The new instrument measures changes in local magnetic fields and the probe is expected to operate for at least the next two years. Insight landed on Mars in November, becoming the first US space program probe to land on the red planet since. Six years.

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