NASA : Scientists Discover Clean Water Ice Just Below Mars' Surface
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Hey guys for those of you who are thinking about living on Mars or want to be the first group of humans to move to Mars and colonize it, there's a little bit of good news! Researchers studying high resolution photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found massive ice sheets and although we did already know that there is ice on Mars but what's surprising is that the ice is relatively pure.
The team studied eight locations on the Red Planet where massive landslides had recently occurred and much to their surprise they discovered ice sheets more than 300 feet thick in some of the studied regions. According to Colin Dundas is a Planetary Geologist at the US Geological Survey that's these locations is quite a thick ice sheet of rather clean ice. There's certainly some amounts of dust and Debris in it and there can be small amounts of salts or other things as well but what we're seeing at the scarves are predominately ice. He also believes that the now exposed ice is sub limiting into the Martian atmosphere meaning is turning from a solid directly to gas and because it is on such a steep hillside or scarves as they call it the researchers can see a cross section of the ice and they believe the ice is surprisingly pure which could mean that this ice is able to turn into water as a resource.
One theory of where the ice sheets came from involves snow in the distant past where researchers believe that something caused it to be deposited and then deposited again but if it was snow from a long time ago, a snowy Mars would have been a really long time ago. Perhaps when it was a wetter world sporting his own magnetic field that would have shielded from Solar Wind. Now like I mentioned if this ice is indeed pure it could be utilized as a resource but there is a problem because the photographed ice is in the mid latitudes about 55 degrees North or South of his Equator meaning it will probably be out of reach at least for the first batch of humans brave enough to make the 35 million journey to Mars. Of course both NASA and the European Space Agency, yes they have Mars missions slated to launch in 2020.
A huge exploratory payload will carry Rovers capable of collecting more information about subsurface ice and the ground-penetrating radar will be on the NASA unit in a trail that can dig seven feet deep will be equipped under ESA’s ExoMars Rover may be one of them should make room for Bruce Willis as well. So, hopefully by damn we'll figure out how deep the ice goes? How pure the ice is and if there's actually liquid underneath the Martian surface ? But here's my question for you let's say you're one of the first people on Mars and for some reason you run out of water and the only thing you have access to is all the ice that's let's say close to your can depth that you can get to so. My question is would you drink that? I think, I would then as a precaution, I think I would have to prepare myself psychologically for like an Alien being to climb out of my stomach. Anyway guys let me know in the comments below would you be one of the first people to colonize on Mars and would you drink the water?
References :
- Youtube: Scientists Discover Clean Water Ice Just Below Mars' Surface: Link
- NASA: Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice: Link
- Bigthink.com: NASA discovers clean-water ice just below Mars' surface: Link
- Wired.com: Scientists Discover Clean Water Ice Just Below Mars' Surface: Link
- Youtube: Scientists Discover Clean Water Ice Just Below Planet’s Surface: Link
The future of man in outer space is getting clearer by the day. I would not be too suprised if in the very near future, mars is transformed into a second earth.
Nice post
Nice. I'm not sure if we will be able to find a way to live in Mars but in future there will definitely be other planets discovered where people can live. There can even be other planets where people are already living.