Even though daytime temperatures in the tropics of Mars can be about \u201320\u00b0C, a summer afternoon there might feel about the same as an average winter day in southern England or Minneapolis. That\u2019s because there\u2019s virtually no wind chill on the Red Planet, according to a new study\u2014the first to give an accurate sense of what it might feel like to spend a day walking about on our celestial neighbor.<\/p>\n
“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\u2013Purdue University Indianapolis. The new findings, he says, “will be useful, as people planning to colonize Mars need to know what they\u2019re getting themselves into.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2594","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n