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When's Martian winter?
Just curious...
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Just curious... Anti-spam address: oldcoot88atwebtv.net Change 'at' to@ |
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Rats. Hit the send button by mistake. !@#$%&* !!
Mars' axial tilt gives it seasons much like Earth's. See- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/113679.stm For more stuff than you'd ever want to know about the Earth-Mars similarity, see- http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/SiteCat/sitecat2/mars.htm oc |
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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. -- Odysseus |
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"Odysseus" wrote in message ... 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? |
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"Insane Ranter" wrote in message ... "Odysseus" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"Peter Webb" wrote in message ... "Insane Ranter" wrote in message ... "Odysseus" wrote in message ... 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. Who knows.. maybe the martians have a weather control device that is under the "face"! LOL |
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In message , Peter Webb
writes "Insane Ranter" wrote in message . .. "Odysseus" wrote in message ... 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. -- Save the Hubble Space Telescope! Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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Insane Ranter wrote:
"Odysseus" wrote in message ... 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? Only if you acknowledge only the two seasons of summer and winter. I assumed there would be four Martioan seasons as on earth, so for half the year -- "every other quarter" -- it would be neither winter nor summer, i.e. during the northern spring / southern autumn and _vice versa_. -- Odysseus |
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