In message , Peter Webb
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dkc_2001 wrote:

Just curious...

Half of the time.

As on earth, if it's summer in one hemisphere it's winter in the
other, and this applies in every other quarter of the year. So you
need to specify which side of the Martian equator you're thinking of.

Wouldn't that techically be all the time then?



Well they certainly don't seem to have a spring time, so we can discount the
equinoxes.

Why not? As it has almost the same axial tilt as Earth, Mars has seasons
in the same way. It has winter in one hemisphere when the polar cap
warms up and evaporates so the atmospheric pressure goes up, and
meanwhile the other hemisphere has summer. There's the added
complication of an eccentric orbit, much more than on Earth.
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