When developing any form of shelter, we would need to keep in mind Mars’ extreme temperature changes. It can reach daytime highs of 20 ° C and nighttime lows of -73 ° C at the height of summer.

That’s where the Mars practice run comes in. E-THEMIS needs to accurately measure surface temperatures to predict the ocean's depth beneath Europa’s fractures.

Pieris and Hayne used measurements performed by the Climate Sounder to investigate two types of dust storm on Mars, denoted as "A" and "C" storms.

Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The ...

The study is published this week in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and will be used to interpret the data from the soil temperature sensor of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL ...

While a hot summer day can reach nearly seventy degrees, the average temperature on Mars is a frigid -80 degrees, with nights regularly dipping below -150 or even -200.

As for the surface, with most of the Martian atmosphere now long blown into space by the solar winds, the mountains and plains of Mars are so dry that they make the driest Earth desert seem like a ...