Mars Weather dal Rover Curiosity

By: Massimo Riso

Daily weather conditions on Mars
By Rover Curiosity

On August 5, 2012 Curiosity landed in Gale Crater, the environmental monitoring station on board immediately started to collect and transmit weather observations of Mars.

I thought that many people will be curious as me to know the minimum and maximum daily temperature, pressure, humidity, the state of the sky on Mars. So I made this small page that collects data transmitted daily, unfortunately became available a few days late.

	Month ⁽²⁾:
	Solar longitude (Ls) ⁽²⁾:
	SOL⁽¹⁾
	Terrestrial date:
	Sunrise:
	Sanset:


	Min. Temperature (°C)
	Max. Temperature (°C)
	Pressure (Pa)

	Abs. Humidity(%)
	Wind speed (ms):
	Wind direction:
	Sky conditions:

1) The term "SOL" refers to the length of the solar day on Mars that is: 24 hours, 39 minutes end 35,244 seconds.
The number that is reported in the field is the number of Martians days since Curiosity is on Mars.

2) A martian year is di 668.6 sols.
Martian months are defined as spanning 30 degrees in solar longitude (Ls).
Due to the eccentricity of Mars orbit, martian months are thus from 46 to 67 sols long.

Month number	Ls range (degrees)		Sol range		duration (in sols)	Stagioni
1	0	30	0.0	61.2	61.2	Northern Hemisphere Spring Equinox at Ls=0
2	30	60	61.2	126.6	65.4
3	60	90	126.6	193.3	66.7	Aphelion (largest Sun-Mars distance) at Ls=71
4	90	120	193.3	257.8	64.5	Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice at Ls=90
5	120	150	257.8	317.5	59.7
6	150	180	317.5	371.9	54.4
7	180	210	371.9	421.6	49.7	Northern Hemisphere Autumn Equinox at Ls=180 Dust Storm Season begins
8	210	240	421.6	468.5	46.9	Dust Storm Season
9	240	270	468.5	514.6	46.1	Perihelion (smallest sun-Mars distance) at Ls=251 Dust Storm Season
10	270	300	514.6	562.0	47.4	Northern hemisphere Winter Solstice at Ls=270 Dust Storm Season
11	300	330	562.0	612.9	50.9	Dust Storm Season
12	330	360	612.9	668.6	55.7	Dust Storm Season ends