What's the weather like on Mars right now?



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Now that the InSight Lander is operational on Mars, NASA is using weather instrumentation from the spacecraft to provide a daily weather report of the Red Planet.

Mars Insight Weather

The report is delayed by about a day (communication delay? Non-essential data delay?), But it's still very cool to see the temperature, the wind speed and the barometric pressure at Elysium Planitia.

I would just note for the record that at one point on Monday it was actually warmer on Mars than it is currently in Vermont. "I have to get up, I have to go out, I have to put myself in the Martian sun …"

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