A good excuse to cover up the 'history making' discovery yesterday?
'it was windy, we lost it'
A huge Martian dust storm tracked from orbit by NASA has affected both Curiosity and Opportunity, the agency's active rovers on the planet's surface. Nearly planetwide mosaic of dust storm by Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter Stitched together shot of Mars during the storm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The Mars Reconnaissance …
See!! See!!! Mankinds activities do cause global warming.
We've put a nuclear power station on Mars and risen the temperature by 25degrees!
We must put a stop to this, all future mars robots must be wind, water and solar powered.
And have you seen how much CO2 is in the atmosphere? That must have been us too. And the ice caps have melted. It's all Obamas fault. If we'd taught Creationism there would be no need for NASA.
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See Nuclear FTW, all those green hippies saying solar is better... Meh!
Two solar powered rovers and one is dead, the other might flat line because it can't get precious energy. But a good 'ole Nuclear laser toting robot tank is just driving on through the dust and continuing to scare the locals.
Here on Planet Earth, there are many warm winds that will cause warming of greater than 25 degrees. These winds come by various names: foehn, Chinook, Berg, North Wester etc.
These all involve two factors: mountains - which Mars has - and precipitation - which Mars would seem to lack.
That really makes it hard to attempt any like-for-like comparisons between Mars and Earth.