'Minus 100 degrees F (-70 C) on Mars might only feel like minus 30 F (-34 C),' Mischna said. Sharon Lewis directs from a script by John Dion. In other words, without as many water molecules to steal your heat, it wouldn't feel as cold. Jayde Siwy, Tom Berry and Suzanne Chapman serve as executive producers. 'If you were to jump into a pool that was 70 degrees, it would feel a lot colder to your body than standing in air at 70 degrees, and that's because the water is able to suck the heat out of your body,' Mischna said. For example, in certain mountain roads in California, you might see signs that indicate. However, you may have come across some laws or signs that may have confused you. Those two temperatures wouldn't feel the same to the human body, because of Mars' thin atmosphere and lack of water vapor. We all know that headlights must be turned on at night after all, you can’t exactly be a safe driver if you can’t see anything. Let's say it was 50 degrees F (10 C) on Earth and 50 degrees F (10 C) on the Red Planet. Still, in an interview with The Atlantic, Michael Mischna, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, says the comparison is indeed accurate - but with one major difference. Which is why we could really say it's colder than Mars on parts of Earth any day of the year. But that's just part of the range of temperatures on the Red Planet.ĭuring winter, temperatures near the poles can get down to -195 degrees F (-125 C).Ī summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 C) near the equator - with the highest temperature shown by NASA at a balmy 86 degrees F (30 C). On an average Mars day, the planet is about -81 degrees F (-60 C) - which yes, is much colder than Minnesota right now. NASA created this handy chart to help us out. But that's not quite accurate.Īccording to The National Weather Service, towns across Minnesota and North Dakota plummeted to -60 degrees F (-51 C) or even colder this week. Which makes it easy to assume it's pretty damn cold all the time. That means the Red Planet isn't able to retain much heat. Mars has a thin, CO2-rich atmosphere - about 100 times thinner than Earth's.

It could be summer in Miami and 85 F (29 C) and we could still say it's colder than Mars. It could be spring in New York City and be 42 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) and we could still say that it's colder than the Red Planet.

But what does 'colder than Mars' really mean? Does it mean your friends in the Midwest - assuming they survive the Polar Vortex - have conquered their first round of Martian training? Not quite.

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