NASA has built a new website where it reports daily the meteorological conditions on the planet Mars.
NASA in the context of InSight Shipment made one new site for the weather of the planet Mars, where it will definitely be "fun for meteorologists". For other ordinary people like us, it's a daily reminder that the planet Mars, if not completely immaculate, is at least too cold.
The site distributes daily weather reports giving thermowinea, atmospheric pressure and wind speed. THE collection of the data comes from InSight, the NASA spacecraft currently located near the red planet's equator.
For the average person, perhaps the most shocking aspect of the daily weather report is that the temperature regularly drops below -95 degrees Celsius and rarely exceeds -12 degrees Celsius. You may also notice that the planet is rather noisy, as the latest wind speed was recorded at 60 kilometers per hour (multiply the meters per second - m / s - by 3,6 to find kilometers per hour - Km / h) . And atmospheric pressure, usually around 700 Pascals, is significantly lower than on Earth, where the average atmospheric pressure at sea is greater than 100.000 Pascals. It is about 7 hPa when the equilibrium curves you see in the weather reports speak of around 1000 hPa.
But NASA does not care much about the weather as it uses these indications to get a better sense of seismic activity on Mars.
Το πακέτο αισθητήρων του InSight, το οποίο ονομάζεται Auxiliary Payload Subsystem (APSS), χρησιμοποιείται για την ανίχνευση πηγών θορύβου που θα μπορούσαν να επηρεάσουν τις μετρήσεις από το σεισμομετρητή του Lander. Το APSS περιλαμβάνει ένα μαγνητόμετρο – το πρώτο που τοποθετείται ποτέ στην επιφάνεια ενός άλλου πλανήτη – για να διαβάζει αλλαγές στο τοπικό μαγνητικό πεδίο. Περιλαμβάνει επίσης αισθητήρια για μετρήσεις των ακραίων μεταβολών της θερμοκρασίας του πλανήτη, measurement of strong winds and low atmospheric pressure.
And what NASA really wants to learn is if there's a seismic activity that could tell us more about how the Earth was formed.