Curiosity's weather report from Mars reveals 'truly enormous' daily atmospheric pressure swings
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 06:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Curiosity, the NASA rover that landed on Mars last month, is sending us remarkable weather observations from the Martian surface that are attracting interest from scientists. "From a weather point of view, Mars is the most 'Earth-like' of the other planets in our solar system, and many features of the weather there are similar to Earth," says Kevin Hamilton, a pioneer in the area of computer modeling of the Martian atmosphere.