Track the Weather on Mars with the Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget

You can get the latest weather (Maximum and Minimum temperatures per Sol or Martian Solar Day) on Mars from the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered to your desktop from the Phoenix lander currently on Mars.

Download: Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget

The Phoenix Mars Lander is a Martian lander (not a rover like Mars Pathfinder) designed to look for evidence of water or ice under the surface of Mars. Instead of roaming around the surface of Mars looking for water evidence - the Phoenix lander will dig below the surface to look for water or ice. Matter a fact, today the Phoenix Mission Team announced they may have found ice - aka frozen water! That's awesome.

The Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget is updated regularly as soon as the weather data is downloaded* from the Phoenix Mars Lander.

*In some cases due to technical reasons, weather data may not be available on a daily basis. For example: I believe today is Sol 25 but the Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget is reporting weather data from Sol 22.

You can get the latest on the Phoenix Mars Mission from their website here or the NASA website here. You can follow them on Twitter as well.

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  1. dovella
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 3:41AM  

    THX

  2. windows vista ultimate...
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 10:17AM  

    This App Is so Fake xD

  3. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 3:45PM  

    windows vista ultimate user254, this gadget and the data contained in the gadget is very much the *real deal*. Not sure what gave you the idea its fake.

    The Phoenix Mars Lander actually as a weather station built in based on Canadian technology which you can read about here:

    http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/exploration/phoenix.asp

    And you can get the Gadget from the Phoenix Mars Mission's University of Phoenix website here;

    http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/screen.php

    Again, this is certainly not fake ;-)

    Thanks,

    Brandon

  4. perryman
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 7:17PM  

    Pretty cool, but right now it's showing the max as -110.2 F and the min as -25.6 F.  Shouldn't those be the other way around, since minus 110 is a lot colder than minus 25???

  5. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 7:23PM  

    perryman, I am not seeing that on my PCs. The minimum is -110.2F and the max is -25.6F.

    If its displaying backwards perhaps you should uninstall the Gadget and try reinstalling.

    Thanks,

    Brandon

  6. perryman
    Posted on: June 20, 2008 at 7:32PM  

    I uninstalled and re-installed it and now it is working properly.  Weird.

  7. BuckFix
    Posted on: June 21, 2008 at 12:00PM  
  8. Jemmba
    Posted on: June 23, 2008 at 3:13AM  

    very cool little tool

  9. bariyer
    Posted on: September 19, 2009 at 5:41AM  

    What's up ta mars beautiful thing to look at them write thank you thank you for sharing your wonderful was

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