It's Really Cold on Mars

[snarkyman]

This comes to me from Clint Chaplin.

Compiled from NASA and terrestrial weather reports:

Temperature at 1 p.m., Jan. 14

Location	Fahrenheit
Gusev Crater, Mars	12
Providence, RI	9
Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA	8
Hartford, CT	7
Buffalo, NY	7
Rochester, NY	3
Ithaca, NY	3
Albany, NY	-2
Binghamton, NY	-2
Concord, NH	-3
Syracuse, NY	-4
Burlington, VT	-10
Montpelier, VT	-12
Caribou, ME	-13
Mount Washington, NH	-36

Comments

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

I wonder how you'd calculate wind-chill when the air is anhydrous CO2 at about 10 millibars... Perhaps windchill wouldn't matter since if you had any exposed skin you'd get a carbonated frost-bitten hicky within seconds.