China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon

Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by oftenwrong on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @03:07PM (#7226925)

>To get a sense of how cold this is, Pluto's average surface temperature is seven degrees warmer.

That doesn't give me a good sense because I have no idea how Pluto's average surface temperature compares to typical on-Earth temperatures that I have experienced. This gives me a better sense:

26 K = -247.2 C

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by lutusp on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:56PM (#7229277)

IMHO you're better off thinking in Kelvins. Room temperature is 295 Kelvins, the cosmic background radiation (the leftover glow of the Big Bang) is 2.7 Kelvins, and between the stars, far from any particular star, an object naturally cools to the universe's background temperature of 2.7 Kelvins.

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by shitgoose on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @03:27PM (#7227030)

Is that with the windchill?

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by officemonkey on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:27PM (#7228517)

No atmosphere, therefore no wind, thus no windchill.

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by akfanta on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @09:08PM (#7228884)

You must be fun at parties.

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by comex on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:05PM (#7227282)

Or -413 F for us silly Americans.

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Re:China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon by fallinghawks on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @05:16PM (#7227735)

Oh, so something like Canadian winter. ;)

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