There's No Wind Chill On Mars 110
sciencehabit writes: Even though daytime temperatures in the tropics of Mars can be about –20C, a summer afternoon there might feel about the same as an average winter day in southern England or Minneapolis. That's because there's virtually no wind chill on the Red Planet, according to a new study — the first to give an accurate sense of what it might feel like to spend a day walking about on our celestial neighbor. "I hadn't really thought about this before, but I'm not surprised," says Maurice Bluestein, a biomedical engineer and wind chill expert recently retired from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. The new findings, he says, "will be useful, as people planning to colonize Mars need to know what they're getting themselves into."
Re:Wind chill on a space suit? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. It's unfortunate. It takes away the once in a lifetime opportunity of breathing 96% CO2.
Re:Wind chill on a space suit? (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately the atmospheric pressure on Mars (0.6 kPa) is far below the Armstrong Limit (6.3 kPa) at which your blood boils at body temperature.
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I thought the Armstrong limit had to do with how many times you can win a Tour de France without getting busted for doping?
Even without wind chill (Score:3, Funny)
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it's cold as hell.