TFA mentions that the air above it gets cold and sinks creating a cold air layer, presumably it is more dense. Any idea how dense this air would be?
EDIT: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars , typical atmospheric pressure on the surface is about 0.6 kPa, compared to about 100 kPa on Earth. That's a bigger difference than would be explained by gravitational differences alone, so probably the fact that there is just much less atmosphere is more important. Either way, it's substantially less dense than any air you're likely to encounter on Earth.