A live window on the Red Planet right now — the current Martian date and season, how far Mars is from Earth this very moment, and the freshest images beamed back by NASA's rovers.
How this is worked out: the Martian time, sol date, solar longitude and season above are calculated live from today's Earth date using standard astronomical formulae (NASA's Mars24 algorithm) — they are not read from a sensor on Mars. The surface temperature is a typical average range for the planet, not a live measurement: there is no weather station currently sending real-time data from Mars (NASA's InSight lander, the last one, retired in December 2022).
Mars swings between about 55 and 400 million km from Earth as both planets orbit the Sun. A signal from Mangalyaan took this long, one way, to reach home.
A selection of real photographs from NASA's Mars rovers. Imagery courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech (public domain).