I’m no scientist, but if there is underground water, that holds open the possibility that there may be a temperate zone underground with heat from a molten core where there may be some liquid water, with a remote chance of some rudimentary life forms.
Not anything I’d want us to spend a trillion dollars or so to find out, mind you.
Understood and agree, but you do know don’t you that’s what the purpose of all these revelations are now. Seeking trillions in research and manned mission efforts. Trillions we simply do not have.
Probably not a molten core. Our molten core creates the movement of the crust (tectonic plates) which causes changes in environment. Without the molten core, we would just stagnate.
While not a “planetarian”, I have often wondered what the asteroid belt has to do with the current state of Mars. Seems to me that the asteroids used to be a plant that would have affected rotations and orbits of other planets.