Which is about a millionth of the total water on Earth.
Yeah, Mars. We're not impressed. It's just a muddy frozen lake, not an ocean. Total crap idea. Also, your web design sucks.
Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
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Re: Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
#22The entire core of Mars is made out of ice. The reactor melts it, and it makes air.
Why this excellent movie reference is down voted, I know not.
Re: Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
#23If we could just pack up some of this extra CO2 & get it over there, maybe we'd have a new planet! I wonder how many PPM you'd need?
Re: Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
#24If we could just pack up some of this extra CO2 & get it over there, maybe we'd have a new planet! I wonder how many PPM you'd need?
Yeah, but how are we going to reheat and spin up the core?
Re: Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the temperature and pressure of Mars' atmosphere, "permafrost" might be a better comparison.
There is a sentence that seems to imply that the frozen status implies there is no life. I'm not so sure we can be sure of that. There are microbes on Earth that basically live in virtually frozen environments. (All you need are moments when the water is liquid.)
You could even just have life that moves more slowly because of the lower available energies. If we ever find some life that does not have an Earth origin perhaps we can finally get some more data points about what environments are really required for life.