Posted by Toby Inkster on 04/14/06 11:20

dorayme wrote:
> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>
>> Everything okay on Mars?
>
> Yes, fine, I was there for part of my Xmas holidays. Lovely to
> get into the warmth for a while.

If it was warm, then you were probably in the northern hemisphere, which
is currently experiencing Spring.

Due to the lack of "temperature smoothing factors", like the oceans on
Earth, Mars' Spring is much like its summer; so in late Spring,
temperatures can climb to almost 20°C.

References:
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/mars/calendar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

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