APRIL 6: HERE’S THE MARTIAN WEATHER REPORT

NASA releases the first weather from the Jezero Crater, pieced together from data from the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyser (MEDA) system aboard Perseverance. MEDA engineers had first received initial data from MEDA a day after the rover touched down.

The data showed it was just below -20°C on the surface when the system started recording, and that the temperature dropped to -25.6°C within 30 minutes.

Over the next year, MEDA will provide valuable information on a range of matters that might inform the design of the planned mission to return to Mars to collect samples. MEDA measurements will also provide information to engineers considering future human missions to Mars.