A Week of Real Weather Data From Mars, -62.5°C Average (NASA InSight → Pen Plotter) #spacex #mars

A Week of Real Weather Data From Mars, -62.5°C Average (NASA InSight → Pen Plotter)

The data wrote this. The plotter just held the pen.

This is a Radial/Mandala plot of seven sols of Mars weather data — Sol 675 through 681 — sourced from NASA’s InSight lander.

The data:
— Average temperature: -62.5°C
— Pressure: 746 Pa (less than 1% of Earth’s sea-level pressure)
— Wind speed: 6.7 m/s
— Wind direction: 293°
— Sols recorded: 7

Why the radial mandala style fits this data:

This style draws spokes radiating from a central point, crossed by concentric rings — both elements warped by the dataset’s distortion and turbulence values. 25 spokes were generated, bowing inward or outward based on wind direction asymmetry recorded that week. 3 concentric rings inflate from clean circles into organic, pulsing ovals based on atmospheric turbulence — a calmer week produces a tighter, more mandala-like shape, while a more turbulent week produces a wilder, web-like pattern. This week sat at a turbulence value of 0.85, producing the pronounced petal-like waviness visible in the outer rings.

About the data source:

NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars in November 2018 and recorded continuous weather data — temperature, pressure, and wind — until its solar panels were gradually buried by Martian dust, ending the mission in December 2022. The data used in this plotter is drawn directly from InSight’s recorded sol-by-sol readings.

Style: Radial/Mandala · Medium: black ink on white paper
Data: NASA InSight API

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