Today, It is Literally Colder than Mars!

It's been cold lately. I mean really, really cold - enough to make me curse at the howling and frigid winds as they assault by cheeks.

But a lot of that sounds like a bunch of whining, doesn't it? I mean, how cold could it really be, right? Well, according to Curiosity, the great Mars rover, today, it is colder in Canada and in many of the Northern states than it is at its current location on Mars!

Here's the tweet from Curiosity's Twitter page:

All of the blue regions are areas that are colder than much of the Martian surface…and that includes pretty much all of Canada (lucky British Columbia!).

So to all of the Canadians (and northern Americans), if you were out and about at all today, then just this one time, you can whine and complain however much you want!

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