Tales From The Travels

The first weather report came back from the Phoenix lander. The report said the temperature ranged between a minimum of minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning and a maximum of minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit) in the afternoon. But, that really wouldn’t have been your biggest concern because the report also said the average pressure was 8.55 millibars, which is less than a hundredth of the sea level pressure on Earth. Tough to breathe under those conditions.