What is the temperature on Mars?

[Banazîr Galbasi]

According to this site: http://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars.html

Mars’s atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth’s. Without a “thermal blanket,” Mars can’t retain any heat energy. On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees F (minus 60 degrees C). In winter, near the poles temperatures can get down to minus 195 degrees F (minus 125 degrees C). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 C). Frost forms on the rocks at night, but as dawn approaches and the air gets warmer, the frost turns to vapor, and there is 100 percent humidity until it evaporates.

So at best it can be 70 degrees F or 20 degrees C.

According to Google: https://www.google.ca/#q=how+far+is+the+earth+from+the+sun

The Earth is 149,600,000 km from the sun and Mars is 227,900,000 km from the sun. That is a difference of 78,300,000 km.

So to make things simple take into consideration the difference in temperature in your location between the hottest day in the summer versus the coldest day in the winter. Allegedly the Earth’s axis gives us our seasons throughout the year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AxialTiltObliquity.png). I.E. it is hotter in the summer and colder in the winter.

So here on Earth in any given location we can have a significant change in temperature over the course of a year due to our distance from the sun. Move the Earth a few thousand kilometers toward or away from the sun and the temperature will change exponentially. Now move it several million miles in either direction and you have a huge difference. Catch my drift?

My point is this: How can Mars possibly produce temperatures even remotely similar to those found on Earth? To me this doesn’t add up.

[Tom Dalpra]

Yes. That does seem simply absurd Banazir. Minus 100 at night and possibly 70 in the day if it’s Summer.
Figures we can relate to. Sort of like a desert, it gets cold at night. Making Mars seem almost like earth, though very remote – inhabitable – almost!
Hey they have popped a remote control buggie up there already.

I think they’re having a complete laugh.

I don’t know what it’s like on the planet they call Mars. I don’t even know how it works exactly around here.

Simple point, well made, I’d say Banazir.

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