NASA's Mars Rover Reveals How Cold It Is On Red Planet 04/08/21 AT 1:19 AM Ingenuity is now alone on the surface of Mars after detaching from the belly of the Perseverance rover Photo: NASA/JPL-CALTECH / Handout KEY POINTS NASA's Mars rover shared the first weather report on the surface of the Red Planet The report indicated that the Martian weather was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius) The rover is able to study the weather there using a machine called MEDA that is equipped with sensors Weather reports are seen as a vital part of everyday life on Earth as they allow people to know what to anticipate. Seeing as NASA is well on its way to eventually sending humans to Mars, the space agency also made it one of its goals to find out what the weather on the Red Planet is like. Thanks to the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) system aboard Perseverance, scientists now know just how cold it could get on the surface of Mars.