Or that's the version we were told, anyway. The teenagers were called Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and their school was Columbine High, an idyllic sounding place nestled between the Denver metropolitan area and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
This is because the amount of sunlight the reaches the equator changes very little, although the temperatures do vary somewhat during the rainy season. Measurement: The average surface temperature on Earth is approximately 14Â°C; but as already noted, this varies.
Earth sits much closer to the sun than Mars does and is thus more intensely subjected to the sunâs formidable power. Not only does the sun generate temperatures on its surface upwards of more than 10,000Â° F (5,538Â° C), but its core temperature is over 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius)!