Liquid water on Mars!

The InSight lander has used seismic wave analysis to discover a massive reservoir of liquid water miles under the surface of Mars. We can't drill down yet, but when we can, it may be critical to sustaining life on the Red Planet.

#mars #space #science #spaceexploration

[shubashuba]

Whoever designed that spacesuit needs to both get a raise and get fired.

[maxfinazzo]

Probably the most well watery tasting water in the entire universe with the amount of iron oxide on the planet

[pikawh]

This is a massive breakthrough for the still water community

[Jagsterk]

Who wants to live on Mars? Seems like a very depressing place to live. Hopefully we will never need to.

[Z_]

Im a driller.. no that doesnt make me a scientist. But.. your not going to bring more thN a few drops of water to the surface by drilling. Matter of fact, if you attempt to.. youll likely create a minor core collapse by the time you got enough to actually sustain life. Just my guess

[yaogwai]

Apart from the dramatic atmosphere issue, high radiation levels, toxic soil, low gravity, high temperatures, but we have water at least

People need to stop acting like finding a new planet when we have everything to save this one at our fingertips is the solution

[cannibalbananas]

Sorry, but Doctor Who taught me to never drink the water on Mars. 😣

[MRNINGSTVR]

We can’t barely drill that deep on Earth, let alone Mars

[maestroaxeman]

The notion of water seeping down into the Martian crust is plausible.
The 3 major things that keep liquid H2O moving on Earth and NOT being blown away by the sun are:

1. The magnetic field & thick-enough atmospheric weather keeping the sun from doing so much damage
2. The tectonic motions & gaseous releases into the atmosphere & even back down into the earth from its own mass & gravity
3. MOST IMPORTANTLY: our moon constantly playing its tug-of-war with our planet's bodies of water

Just a nerd's insight🤓

The notion makes the possibilities of life "evolving" like Earth's [or successfully sustainable] VERY unlikely🤔☝️🤓

[stevelabranche]

All this talk about making an atmosphere on Mars. Without an iron/magnetic core to deflect solar winds and radiation, how can it sustain an atmosphere?

[MukiBlalock]

10-13 miles deep sounds like a 🌃 nightmare!😂😂😂

[NaptownHarry]

It's great to know some day we'll be able to destroy our neighboring planets as well as our own. 😢

[BuildBuy]

It's likely that a lot of it WAS blown away into space along with the atmosphere when the planet's magnetic field dissipated, so Mars might've had more water than Earth at some point

[Extra_ordinary]

So, 7.5 miles is the deepest we have ever drilled on Earth (in Russia). It took them 20 years. The US tried and gave up after 20 meters.

[inspirasinegara]

It's not good to live on Mars, it's better to plant antennas and towers on Mars so that the spaceship network becomes stronger, , , , 😊

[thelittlestgiant]

Come on, there’s absolutely some aquatic alien critters sloshing around down there. Imagine the first time we manage to drill down and send a camera+light device to film. 🤩

[dorichbrown]

We're not getting off this planet you all know this let's just try to keep our planet alive for a little while

[neoqueto]

"best explains the existing data" I love that phrase so much.

[TheMicroTrak]

Yes, the Lava monsters need the water to regulate their temperature. Also, you can time travel through wormholes.

[sotl]

No it didn't. The water on the surface of Mars was blasted away over several large solar storms. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth, that deflects solar storms. The solar storms blasted the atmosphere of Mars and eviscerated the oceans that covered the surface.
Earth also has vast underground oceans. Mars is the exact same in that regard.