It just struck me, that if they vcan develop a system to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, anf if theyt have indeed found a significant amount of water on Mars, this would be able to support a Mars base with not only water, but air, and power, without having to transport it from Earth. Heck, the soil might even be used in a greenhouse to grow food.
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I don’t think they found water on mars. The ‘lab’ doesn’t support the observation that ‘some light colored particles vanished’. They also could have changed color after exposure to elements in the atmosphere.
Besides, even if they do find a few particles of water, it easily could have got there from a comet impacting the planet.
Certainly not anything to begin building a base on mars, what ever purpose that would serve since it’s basically uninhabitable even of there were rivers of water. A waste of money as far as I’m concerned.
It also doesn’t make sense that frozen water would ‘evaporate’ so fast when it’s what -100c on mars? Now if it were a chunk of frozen co2...