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Mars The weather at Gale crater, sol after sol since 2012

Martian season (Ls)
341 °
25/08/2026
northern winter, last sol published
Pressure
777 Pa
25/08/2026
about 0.8 % of the Earth’s pressure
 
Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
Minimum air temperature
-71 °C
25/08/2026
 
Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
Maximum air temperature
-5 °C
25/08/2026
 
Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
Pressure at Gale crater since 2012 (Pa) Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
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The annual cycle (a Martian year lasts 687 Earth days) comes from CO₂ freezing and thawing at the poles; the slow background decline, from the rover climbing Mount Sharp. See the correspondence “Martian season and pressure”.
Minimum and maximum air temperatures since 2012 (°C) Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
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Differences of 60 to 90 °C between day and night: the atmosphere, a hundred times thinner than the Earth’s, holds heat poorly. Near the equator (4.6° S), seasons matter less than the distance to the Sun, which varies by 20 % along the orbit.
Ground temperatures since 2012 (°C) Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB) · NASA content, public domain; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA) · 10/25/26 Current
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The ground warms more than the air by day, to above 10 °C in southern summer, and cools more at night.

Martian season and pressure

Method and sources

Daily reports of the REMS weather station (Centro de Astrobiología, Spain) on Curiosity, published by NASA and JPL: pressure, air temperatures at 1.6 m and ground temperatures, solar longitude Ls. Each sol (Martian day of 24 h 39 min) is dated with the corresponding Earth day.

Reading these data
A single, moving station: the rover has climbed several hundred metres and changed surroundings (crater floor, then the slopes of Mount Sharp), which alters pressure and temperatures independently of the climate. Wind and humidity are no longer published; some sols are missing (rover asleep, solar conjunctions). A few isolated outliers (spikes to −100 °C) are left as published.
SOURCES OF THIS PAGE
Curiosity rover REMS daily weather reports, Gale crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech, CAB)
Gómez-Elvira, J., et al. (2012). REMS: the Environmental Sensor Suite for the Mars Science Laboratory rover. Space Science Reviews, 170, 583–640. Daily reports of the REMS team, NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA). · doi:10.1007/s11214-012-9921-1 · source page ↗
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