Huge reservoir of liquid water found on Mars

[Occams Barber]

BBC (edited)
12 August 2024

Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks


Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars - deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet. The findings come from a new analysis of data from Nasa’s Mars Insight Lander, which touched down on the planet back in 2018.

The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Insight's scientific mission ended in December 2022, after the lander sat quietly listening to "the pulse of Mars" for four years. In that time, the probe recorded more than 1,319 quakes. By measuring how fast seismic waves travel, scientists have worked out what material they are most likely to be moving through.

The analysis revealed reservoirs of water at depths of about six to 12 miles (10 to 20km) in the Martian crust.

(Scientists) estimate that there is enough liquid water on Mars to form a layer across the surface that would be more than half a mile deep.


Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust (bbc.com)

OB

 

[Offline4Better.]

BBC (edited)
12 August 2024

Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks


Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars - deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet. The findings come from a new analysis of data from Nasa’s Mars Insight Lander, which touched down on the planet back in 2018.

The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Insight's scientific mission ended in December 2022, after the lander sat quietly listening to "the pulse of Mars" for four years. In that time, the probe recorded more than 1,319 quakes. By measuring how fast seismic waves travel, scientists have worked out what material they are most likely to be moving through.

The analysis revealed reservoirs of water at depths of about six to 12 miles (10 to 20km) in the Martian crust.

(Scientists) estimate that there is enough liquid water on Mars to form a layer across the surface that would be more than half a mile deep.


Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust (bbc.com)

OB

This is awesome. Hopefully, we can discover some bacteria or life under the surface of Mars. Hopefully, within my lifetime, or before Russia nukes us.

 

[Occams Barber]

This is awesome. Hopefully, we can discover some bacteria or life under the surface of Mars. Hopefully, within my lifetime, or before Russia nukes us.

(Scientists) estimate that there is enough liquid water on Mars to form a layer across the surface that would be more than half a mile deep.

I think that this ^ finding conclusively proves that the Noah flood actually took place on Mars.

OB

 

[Offline4Better.]

I think that this ^ finding conclusively proves that the Noah flood actually took place on Mars.

OB

Haha, good one. Noah is a Martian. His ark was a warp capable ship made out of advanced Martian wood.

 

[Bobber]

Haha, good one. Noah is a Martian. His ark was a warp capable ship made out of advanced Martian wood.

On no! What this will mean is governments will someday spend a lot of money trying to ship this fresh water back to Earth for drinking water when if they'd only look more closely here they'd find a whole bunch of it.

 

[Occams Barber]

On no! What this will mean is governments will someday spend a lot of money trying to ship this fresh water back to Earth for drinking water when if they'd only look more closely here they'd find a whole bunch of it.

No need to ship the water.

Think straws... long straws...... very long straws....

OB

 

[Servus]

Isn't "liquid water" a tad redundant?

 

[Tinker Grey]

Isn't "liquid water" a tad redundant?

No

 

[Occams Barber]

Isn't "liquid water" a tad redundant?

Only if you've never heard of ice or water vapour.

Water has been found on Mars before but only in the form of ice or vapour. This find is significant because it's the first known instance of water in liquid form.

Liquid water suggests the (remote) possibility of conditions conducive to life. It also tells you something about temperatures and structure in the deep Martian crust.

OB

 

[Servus]

Only if you've never heard of ice or water vapour.

Water has been found on Mars before but only in the form of ice or vapour. This find is significant because it's the first known instance of water in liquid form.

Liquid water suggests the (remote) possibility of conditions conducive to life. It also tells you something about temperatures and structure in the deep Martian crust.

OB

I don't like crust. Mom always cut it off for me.

 

[Occams Barber]

I don't like crust. Mom always cut it off for me.

Ahhhh...that explains a lot. Eating crusts is the primary source of wisdom.

OB

 

[Servus]

Ahhhh...that explains a lot. Eating crusts is the primary source of wisdom.

OB

That must be why they put prisoners on a diet of crust and liquid water.

 

[Offline4Better.]

On no! What this will mean is governments will someday spend a lot of money trying to ship this fresh water back to Earth for drinking water when if they'd only look more closely here they'd find a whole bunch of it.

Probably, or relocate humans to Mars. Or, not bother with it, cos travel to Mars is expensive. We could extract the water (humidity) out of the air nowadays.

 

[Servus]

What's the big deal about this, when the moon has the sea of tranquility?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

What's the big deal about this, when the moon has the sea of tranquility?

Because the Sea of Tranquility is not literally a sea. It's just an area given a fancy and memorable name.

 

[Servus]

Because the Sea of Tranquility is not literally a sea. It's just an area given a fancy and memorable name.

Yeah I know, that was a joke.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Yeah I know, that was a joke.

Will admit: I am quite joke blind for the internet, and I have seen people say stuff as silly as that and be 100% serious.

 

[Servus]

Will admit: I am quite joke blind for the internet, and I have seen people say stuff as silly as that and be 100% serious.

There couldn't be a body of water on the moon because it's a flat vertical disk that's lit from behind.

 

[Mark Quayle]

There couldn't be a body of water on the moon because it's a flat vertical disk that's lit from behind.

Gotta admit this one caught me by surprise!!!

 

[AV1611VET]

I think that this ^ finding conclusively proves that the Noah flood actually took place on Mars.

QV please:

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ice lake found on the Red Planet


Here we see water on mars! When the waters of the flood were dryed with a great wind, it seems some ended up pon mars! Not millions of years ago, thousands!

water on mars proof of the flood, and merge