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What happened to Mars's water? It is still trapped there
Posted on 3/22/21 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 3/22/21 at 2:32 pm
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Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according to evidence still found on the surface, abundant water flowed across Mars and forming pools, lakes, and deep oceans. The question, then, is where did all that water go?
The answer: nowhere. According to new research from Caltech and JPL, a significant portion of Mars's water -- between 30 and 99 percent -- is trapped within minerals in the planet's crust. The research challenges the current theory that the Red Planet's water escaped into space.
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Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according to evidence still found on the surface, abundant water flowed across Mars and forming pools, lakes, and deep oceans. The question, then, is where did all that water go?
The answer: nowhere. According to new research from Caltech and JPL, a significant portion of Mars's water -- between 30 and 99 percent -- is trapped within minerals in the planet's crust. The research challenges the current theory that the Red Planet's water escaped into space.
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Posted on 3/22/21 at 3:27 pm to Trumansfangs
Potentially there is enough water on Mars that with the right technology we could establish a domed/underground colony.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 4:43 pm to Trumansfangs
Can we tap into it and help people in Flint?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 3:07 am to Trumansfangs
Go ahead and drink water from Mars, almost as bad as Mexico.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:28 am to Trumansfangs
Would be interesting to put man on Mars and eventually a survey and drilling crew to see if you could drill a well and get water to the surface
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:07 pm to Trumansfangs
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A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
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This gives credence to the theory that Mars still has its water. Earth once had so much surface water that there were no landmasses to be seen. In the formation of rocky planets plenty of water apparently interacts with minerals below ground and stays there.
Posted on 3/25/21 at 6:16 am to Trumansfangs
Never understood the fascination of trying to live on a dead planet. When you are living on a living one.
Posted on 3/25/21 at 12:28 pm to solus
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Never understood the fascination of trying to live on a dead planet. When you are living on a living one.
What a narrow minded and ignorant thing to say.
Posted on 3/26/21 at 12:53 pm to solus
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Never understood the fascination of trying to live on a dead planet. When you are living on a living one.
White flight has no limits
Posted on 4/11/21 at 9:23 am to Kentucker
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This is interesting AF. I realize thats over 430 miles, but if worse came to worse (hundreds/thousands of years from now) what's the possibility of tapping into that water? Or does that water being at a certain level balance out the water on the surface?
I'm assuming it will be salt water?
Posted on 4/11/21 at 9:39 am to Trumansfangs
Oh boy... somethin new to frack.
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Posted on 4/11/21 at 3:58 pm to greenbean
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I realize thats over 430 miles, but if worse came to worse (hundreds/thousands of years from now) what's the possibility of tapping into that water?
Because hydrogen and oxygen are two of the most common elements in the Universe, water is super abundant almost everywhere. If we ever need additional water on earth’s surface it would likely be far more economical to bring it in from sources within the solar system than to retrieve it from deep within the earth.
During their formations, earth and Mars (and probably Venus, too) had lots of water that gradually sank and combined with rocks and minerals deep under their surfaces. We shouldn’t expect to find “free water” beneath Mars’ surface because of that.
That’s the case with earth’s subterranean water, too. It isn’t trapped in pockets or “underground oceans” like some of the media have reported. It would have to be extracted from whatever it has combined with. Same on Mars.
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Or does that water being at a certain level balance out the water on the surface?
As water from comets and other sources arrived on the growing earth, it accumulated on the surface. At first it arrived in such abundance that the entire surface was covered and earth was a water world; water arrived faster than it could be absorbed into the earth’s crust. When the amount of incoming water from space slowed and then stopped, its absorption continued until saturation occurred. It leveled off, or balanced, with 70% of the earth’s surface still covered with water and 30% dry land.
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I'm assuming it will be salt water?
Water readily dissolves many, many minerals. The only way to get pure water is to distill it. So, yes, it will be salty or have some other “flavor” depending upon what it combined with.
This post was edited on 4/12/21 at 7:06 am
Posted on 4/12/21 at 5:01 pm to Kentucker
Posted on 4/14/21 at 11:45 am to Kentucker
I think you should have written the article.
The water is not in an aqueduct or reservoir, but is "locked" in other minerals and rocks in the earth's core.
The water is not in an aqueduct or reservoir, but is "locked" in other minerals and rocks in the earth's core.
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