NASA reports in the news that Manitoba of Canada is now colder than Mars. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/Manitoba/ID/2427876880/ My breakfast froze in my mouth. Is Mars in a global warming?
Many places on our planet ate significanty more frigid that the warmest sections of Mars. Just as many places are far warmer...I fail to see the point.
all dependent on where the temperature readings are done, in the martian soil or one meter above it(martian atmosphere doesn't retain heat), in the tropics or at the poles...having a choice I'd prefer to be in Manitoba in winter than Mars in any season...summer would be a different matter the summer mosquito plague in Manitoba makes mars an attractive option...
The problem I see with these words is that saying the temperature on Mars, or Earth, or even Manitoba is too vague. There is not "a" temperature that can be said to be the temperature of any one of these places. One can speak of AVERAGE temperature, but honestly ONLY if they have taken the temperature at a significant number of positions and times to qualify as a meaningful average. Like what is the "average" temperature of Earth, and how was it measured? And what seasonal time of the year would be chosen to represent the average? Then we have the issue of temperature variation over time. If one realistically takes these multiple temperature measurements at one point in time, like for Mars, how long does that temperature range maintain itself before the average is affected? And are these temperature measurements taken consistently from pole to pole, as well as from East to West? Considering Mars again, how long does it take to get these measurements taken and sent data back to Earth? Certainly it would take longer to get the Mars data than to get Earth's data. Thus the data would not be measured at the same time, and that throws another variable into the analysis, time correlation. All in all, I think one is taking a giant leap to state with any accuracy what the "average" temperature of any large location might be.
