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Old 05-July-2008, 01:43 PM
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Cold as Mars is, it's still way, *way* too hot for methane rain. Not to mention that there's so little of it in the atmosphere to begin with.
Is there a possibility of CO2 snow during a polar winter? (around -110 deg F)

Wiki says the min temp is -125 deg F, so I would imagine it's possible, though there may be sublimation issues given the extremely low pressure.
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