Why does this article assume that if I got to Mars I'd be wearing boots? I'd be feeling those toes in the soil! spacedaily.com/t-mars-sprin...

Mars has such thin air that around noon near the equator, sunlit ground beneath your boots could reach 24 degrees Celsius while the air around your head remained below freezing — allowing one standing...The thin Martian atmosphere creates radical temperature swings across impossibly short distances, making the planet's climate fundamentally alien to anything on Earth.spacedaily.com