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NASA Mars Weather Service Launched

posted by martyb on Thursday February 21 2019, @04:51AM   
from the predicting-low-temperatures-brought-on-by-reduced-sunshine-and-a-low-pressure-system dept.

RandomFactor writes:

Courtesy of its Insight lander, NASA has launched a website that provides week-long weather forecasts for Elysium Planitia of our dusty red neighbor.

The new site is available here, and

...provides the public with a weekly Mars forecast, including high and low temperatures, wind speed, and pressure. The weekly forecast is joined by a historic data chart showing average and record temperatures for the Red Planet, offering a truly unique look at the foreign world.

The lander is located on the Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain located slightly North of the equator.

The InSight(Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander's primary mission is to "to study in-depth the 'inner space' of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core."

NASA does better with acronyms than Congress.

Also at: Bad Astronomer, CNN, Forbes, and Fortune.

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• Great! If you're a fucking Martian! Great! If you're a fucking Martian! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @05:27AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @05:27AM (#804395)

  How about putting up decent weather service for Mexico? The one we have sucks.

  I don't get this obsession. Anybody who would want to spend more than a half hour on the surface should be declared insane, and then sent up there to see if they mean it. Besides, we can't even put anybody on the damn moon, and these morons talk about Mars like it's just another block or two away.

  • Stop! (Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday February 21 2019, @06:05AM

    by black6host (3827) on Thursday February 21 2019, @06:05AM (#804399) Journal

    Stop hating! How the hell else are you going to know when the best time to visit Mars is if you don't have a good weather report?!!!

    Joking aside, being able to predict the weather may mean that rovers designed for months may last centuries. Just sayin'.

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• Weather report, not forecast (Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:06AM

  by KritonK (465) on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:06AM (#804421)

  This is a weather report, with actually measured data, not a forecast. The latest such report is from four days ago.

  Still, these are very interesting data. It looks like they're having a cold spell over there, with high temperatures getting lower every day.

• Australia has had this for years Australia has had this for years (Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Thursday February 21 2019, @11:31AM (1 child)

  by driverless (4770) on Thursday February 21 2019, @11:31AM (#804463)

  Shit, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been forecasting the weather on Mars for years. Or at least I'm pretty sure it's Mars, it certainly isn't the weather in Australia.

  • Re:Australia has had this for years (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday February 21 2019, @05:06PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday February 21 2019, @05:06PM (#804578)

    Possible the best post ever.

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