Comments on: First Weather Station on the Surface of Mars http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 29 May 2012 15:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wondering Aloud http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15842 Wed, 28 May 2008 18:13:54 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15842 Do weather rocks have a better record then GCM’s? I think so, but I’m not certain.

Evan
Not the landing Vikings; the Viking landers.

]]> By: Evan Jones http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15710 Tue, 27 May 2008 17:16:42 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15710 actually, the Viking landers had meteorology instruments

Then why do we have to use proxies for medieval Greenland, huh?

]]> By: Quentin--The Uncomfortable Truth http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15709 Tue, 27 May 2008 17:12:08 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15709 Thank goodness it din’t land next to an air conditioning vent!

]]> By: Videodrone http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15698 Tue, 27 May 2008 15:30:53 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15698 actually, the Viking landers had meteorology instruments – I was part of a group called Delta Vee who gave money to NASA to keep collecting data from the landers after the planed missions had finished, I used to dial up the latest picture and temp over blazing fast 300bps modem

]]> By: Bill in Vigo http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15688 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:23:08 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15688 After 22 years in the military I can tell you that the weather rock works and it works everytime. I have never known it to fail. On every airfield that I was stationed there was one hanging from a post usually just out side the operations office window with the observation interpretation posted next to the window. Of course we did call the Air force met office to confirm the findings of the rock. Being Army aviation we were considered low tech in their eyes, but it did make you wonder why they had a weather rock also.

Oh the joy of multimillion dollar humor, if we didn’t laugh we would have to cry.
At least they did tech it up some. And I am glad it survived the flight and the
landing.

Bill Derryberry

]]> By: NASA sends “The Weather Rock” to Mars « Watts Up With That? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15685 Tue, 27 May 2008 09:49:13 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15685 [...] sends “The Weather Rock” to Mars 27 05 2008 When I made a post titled ”First Weather Station on the Surface of Mars” I expressed some concern that there might be something wrong with the meteorological [...]

]]> By: rutger http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15683 Tue, 27 May 2008 07:10:11 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15683 ..well at least its rural…!!

]]> By: Evan Jones http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15680 Tue, 27 May 2008 06:28:18 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15680 They were going to use it to find out there was life on Mars but it proved useless on account of UHI effect.

]]> By: Alan S. Blue http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/05/26/first-weather-station-on-the-surface-of-mars/#comment-15677 Tue, 27 May 2008 05:17:54 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1259#comment-15677 Using the CRN guidelines would probably lead to a poor rating – there’s a heck of a lot of lander and solar panel underneath the weather station. :D At least there’s no concerns about overhanging trees, and the terrain does seem fairly representative. Except for the hunk of metal. ;)

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