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Is There Weather on Mars?

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We Asked a NASA Technologist.

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Well the short answer is yes of course. The\h
weather on Mars is in some sense very similar

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to the one we have here on Earth. We have\h
seasons, for example, strong winds and clouds.

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But we can also find huge differences. The\h
thermal variations are wider than on Earth.

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For example, where Perseverance is, in a single\h
day we can go from -14 Fahrenheit

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to -120 Fahrenheit, so this is really extreme. Other\h
interesting meteorological phenomena occurring on Mars

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are the local, regional or even global dust storms.\h
To better understand these weather variations and

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the climate, Perseverance has an instrument that\h
will focus on the study of the Martian atmosphere.

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This is the MEDA instrument. MEDA stands for Mars\h
Environmental Dynamics Analyzer.

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Curiosity and InSight have their own meteorological station\hand together with MEDA on Perseverance, we

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will be having the first meteorological\h
network on another planet.

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The three of\hthem working simultaneously will help us\h
better understand the atmospheric dynamic.

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So is there weather on Mars? Yes and\h
it is really really fascinating.