Track the Weather on Mars with the Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget


Posted by Brandon LeBlanc on Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:16 PM 10 Comments

You can get the latest weather (Maximum and Minimum temperatures per Sol or Martian Solar Day) on Mars from the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered to your desktop from the Phoenix lander currently on Mars.

Download: Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget

The Phoenix Mars Lander is a Martian lander (not a rover like Mars Pathfinder) designed to look for evidence of water or ice under the surface of Mars. Instead of roaming around the surface of Mars looking for water evidence - the Phoenix lander will dig below the surface to look for water or ice. Matter a fact, today the Phoenix Mission Team announced they may have found ice - aka frozen water! That's awesome.

The Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget is updated regularly as soon as the weather data is downloaded* from the Phoenix Mars Lander.

*In some cases due to technical reasons, weather data may not be available on a daily basis. For example: I believe today is Sol 25 but the Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget is reporting weather data from Sol 22.

You can get the latest on the Phoenix Mars Mission from their website here or the NASA website here. You can follow them on Twitter as well.

JUN 20
 

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JUN 20
 

Posted by dovella

THX
JUN 20
 

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JUN 20
 

Posted by windows vista ultimate user254

This App Is so Fake xD
JUN 20
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

windows vista ultimate user254, this gadget and the data contained in the gadget is very much the *real deal*. Not sure what gave you the idea its fake.

The Phoenix Mars Lander actually as a weather station built in based on Canadian technology which you can read about here:

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/exploration/phoenix.asp

And you can get the Gadget from the Phoenix Mars Mission's University of Phoenix website here;

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/screen.php

Again, this is certainly not fake ;-)

Thanks,

Brandon
JUN 20
 

Posted by perryman

Pretty cool, but right now it's showing the max as -110.2 F and the min as -25.6 F.  Shouldn't those be the other way around, since minus 110 is a lot colder than minus 25???
JUN 20
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

perryman, I am not seeing that on my PCs. The minimum is -110.2F and the max is -25.6F.

If its displaying backwards perhaps you should uninstall the Gadget and try reinstalling.

Thanks,

Brandon
JUN 20
 

Posted by perryman

I uninstalled and re-installed it and now it is working properly.  Weird.
JUN 21
 

Posted by BuckFix

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JUN 23
 

Posted by Jemmba

very cool little tool
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