Talk:Mars

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In the article it is stated that that the summer temperatures of the southern hemisphere can reach 30 C, whether or not this is correct(as brought up by someone else) it is certainly not true that 30 C is equal to 54 F. This should be edited to the correct equivalency which will be ~86 F. --Perturbedpenguin (talk) 05:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Bot report : Found duplicate references !

In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

• "aurora" :
  • {{cite web | last=Bertaux et al. | first = Jean-Loup | url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/abs/nature03603.html | title=Discovery of an aurora on Mars | work=Nature Magazine | date=June 9, 2005 | accessdate=2006-06-13}}
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• "nasa" :
  • {{cite web | title = Mars: Facts & Figures | publisher = NASA | url = http://solarsystem.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars&Display=Facts&System=Metric | accessdate = 2007-03-06 }}
  • {{cite web | last = Phillips | first = Dr. Tony | title = Mars is Melting, Science at NASA | url = http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm | accessdate = 2007-02-26 }}

DumZiBoT (talk) 10:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rogue asteroids

I have a question Pluto was declared a dwarf planet since it didn't clear the neighborhood but Mars has rogue asteroids so that means Mars haven't yet cleared the neighborhood so does that mean Mars isn't a planet but a mini planet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.234.94 (talk) 00:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Pluto did not clear (dominant) its region of other "similar sized objects". The asteroids near Mars (or the Earth) are not of a similar size to either planet. There are many objects in Pluto's region that are roughly half of Pluto's size. Had astronomers known Pluto was so small back when it was discovered it may never have been classified as a planet. Even as recently as the 1970's it was commonly believed that Pluto was 5700km in diameter and nearly as massive as the Earth. Rogue asteroids are rogues because they being pushed around by the dominant objects. -- Kheider (talk) 03:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.83.117 (talk) 06:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mars is very cold

This source said the low is minus 130 C, and the warmest is 0 degs. C. I wonder which source is right. The average surface temp is only 218 K, puts it to like -55 C.--SCFReeways 03:04, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

On a similar topic, the average temperature is wrong and has been created by averaging the max and min temperatures. It should be 195K (look at Earth for an example of why the average temperature is not the average of max and min) Cupboard1 (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hydrology

The second paragraph of the hydrology section reads like a debate rather than an encyclopedic overview. Someone needs to rewrite it, so it doesn't sound so much like someone trying to win an argument. Kaldari (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Length of Mars

I am doing a write up about Mars and i wondered what length Mars is. Does anyone know the width and the length? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.237.81.199 (talk) 08:53, 5 November 2008 (UTC)