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I suspect that the ocean is still there but that it’s frozen and covered with a layer of dust.

2 posted on 04/02/2018 2:02:37 PM PDT by WMarshal (Molon Labe!)

I was just going to ask what they think happened to the water. Your theory makes a great deal of sense.

5 posted on 04/02/2018 2:06:41 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)

To: WMarshal; null and void; Travis McGee

I suspect that the ocean is still there but that it’s frozen and covered with a layer of dust.

Unless it's buried deep, one of our Rovers would have found it.

Imagine this scenario, though:

We dig deep in Mars with a new Rover or in person, and we DO discover a shallow, frozen 'ocean'.

We take back a slice for analysis on Earth, and discover tiny microorganisms that are COMPLETELY alien to our biology. Maybe they are silicon- and not carbon-based. But they are so hardy, due to the harsh conditions of Mars, that when they inevitably get released into our world, they conquer it in a matter of months, killing all of us and any carbon-based life whatsoever.

I officially copyright this plotline. I shall write a short story about this scenario. See you all soon.

12 posted on 04/02/2018 3:30:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)

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