Mars Climate Database: The Web Interface

Beginners' column (1-click presets) Regular users' column Advanced settings and information
1) LANDING DATE Land now!
Curiosity Phoenix
Opportunity Spirit Pathfinder
Viking Lander 2 Viking Lander 1
MARS date Solar longitude degrees
Local Time Martian hour
write a value (or) a range val1;val2 (or) 'all'

EARTH date YY / MM / DD @ hh:mm:ss
/ / @ :: UTC
If longitude is a free dimension, local time value is
at longitude 0 fixed for the whole planet

Earth Julian Date
Mars year - month / 12 - sol / 669


2) TIME Morning Afternoon
Evening Night

3) ALTITUDE Near-surface
Boundary layer Troposphere
Mesosphere Thermosphere

CUSTOMIZE COORDINATES ON MARS
write a value (or) a range val1;val2 (or) 'all'
  • Latitude degree North
  • Longitude degree East
  • Altitude
  • Dust scenario
  • Interpolate using MOLA topography on off
  • MCD version 4.3
4) INTEREST Atmosphere
Winds Weather
Water cycle Chemistry
Landing engineering
Glaciology Surface meteorology
Radiative balance
CUSTOMIZE VARIABLE(S) TO BE DISPLAYED

Variable 1
Variable 2
Variable 3
Variable 4
  • Set picture resolution medium high eps
  • Set colormap
  • Set bounds in 2D plots min max
  • Wind vectors in lat/lon plot off on
  • Zonal average in lat/alt plot off on
  • Log(values) in 1D plots off on



Mars Climate Database (c) LMD/OU/IAA/ESA/CNES.
Interface written by A. Spiga (LMD) using Python.
Javascript time conversion by E. Millour (link).