QUESTION:
Canadians are all too familiar with the concept of a "Wind Chill Factor" the
- fact that the wind makes it feel colder than it actually is by increasing
the rate of heat transfer. Keeping this principal in mind, a lower
atmospheric pressure will also effect the rate of heat transfer. In the same
way that 4 C water feels colder than 4 C air due to the different heat
transfer characteristics of the two media, a -20 C temperature on Mars would
not feel as cold as -20 C air on Earth. What, then, would a student feel the
temperature to be if they were on Mars with the Pathfinder?
 
It might be more relevant to many people to see the values shown on the
website correlated to more human terms, much as we do in Canada with the
"Wind Chill Factor".

ANSWER from Bruce Jakosky on October 24, 1997:
If a student were exposed to the Martian air so that they could feel the
"wind chill", they would have more serious problems to contend with.  The
pressure is low enough that their lungs would pop.  Bodily fluids would
boil, and they would lose consciousness and die very quickly.

Seriously, I'm not sure that the wind chill factor has much intuitive
meaning at the low temperatures that are appropriate most of the time on
Mars.  A typical day on Mars would be very close in average temperature to
the coldest day in Antarctica.