Posted on 11/29/2016 5:56:59 PM PST by Ray76
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument. Analyses of data from more than 600 overhead passes with the onboard radar instrument reveal a deposit more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico. The deposit ranges in thickness from about 260 feet (80 meters) to about 560 feet (170 meters), with a composition that's 50 to 85 percent water ice, mixed with dust or larger rocky particles.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpl.nasa.gov ...
Maybe once all the “water protectors” leave ND we can send them the Mars to protect this giant ice lake....
You know for future Mars missions...
This is where we will put down the first Mars Colony. Large amounts of water will be a major help and makes it cost a lot less to start. Water equals Mars grown food and Mars made rocket fuel that will not need to be sent from Earth. This makes it cheaper to build the first colony on Mars instead of the Moon.
Water and energy equals oxygen and food.
A Mars colony can be sustained. And can probably synthesize the fuel necessary to send a rocket back to earth.
Los Angeles can’t get great lakes water, so it has dibs on it.
Need nuclear power plant and/or solar farm and lots of batteries
Human survival on Mars is limited to how much food and oxygen they can carry with them. They might some day figure a way to produce food but oxygen seems impossible to me.
“They might some day figure a way to produce food but oxygen seems impossible to me.”
Nuclear submarines extract all their oxygen from sea water and expel the hydrogen.
Well all the liberals now have a place free of us evil conservatives and Trump to move too.
You really believe this? Nonsense.
uh, water splits into 1 Hydrogen atom and 2 Oxygen atoms when hit with electricity. Water also can be made into Rocket fuel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_splitting
Robots can build the shelter and power plant before humans even arrive.
Water is an ENORMOUS and game changing discovery.
Now they need a carbon source.
Is your worldview shaken?
Elon Musk from Telsa is planning the first Mars supply mission in 2018. There may not be people on the first flight, but equipment will be going.
Let’s be certain of good reasons for establishing an astronomically expensive colony in any place not naturally hospitable to human life. What exactly is to be gained?
We are not going to colonize mars or any other planet the human race will die out way before any of that silliness happens
“They might some day figure a way to produce food but oxygen seems impossible to me.”
Uh, O2 is easy-peasy with all of that available water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
And the H2 is extremely useful as well, particularly if a carbon source can be found.
Water is H2O
so you get Hydrogen (fuel for rockets and H2 powered vehicles), O for sustaining life...collect the CO2 from the humans for the plants....get food and more O.
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