Mars Needs Water!

(Edward Wright) wrote:

(MattWriter) wrote in message ...

Because space is so visible. Space-related activities are well reported (not
always accurately, but prominently), leading most people to believe space in
general and NASA in particular gets far more money than it does from the US
Federal Government.

Matt, do you realize that the Federal government has spent
approximately a trillion dollars on space programs?

And in that same period it's spent hundreds of trillions on welfare
and social programs *alone*.

Some people sincerely believe it is possible to do more
with less.

It quite posssible to do more with less. But NASA's total budget
isn't a fraction of a percent of what HEW spends each year.

D.
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Micky Fin wrote:
|Do you honestly belive mars is dry. When water turns to ice it goes
|nowhere. I have no doubts its there. I think its underground. Like we
|dig for oil we would have to dig for water.

Okay, interesting point. Can 'solid' veins of water-ice be sounded out,
then, with geophones and seismometers?

|Strange concept

It is seductively attractive nevertheless.

How wide can a frozen subterranean aquifer be on Mars?

Are frozen veins going to be miles wide and miles deep? That is a whole
lot of water, don't you think? How solid is this ice going to be, and
how fast will it propagate sound waves?

|Micky Fin wrote:
||Do you honestly belive mars is dry. When water turns to ice it goes
||nowhere. I have no doubts its there. I think its underground. Like we
||dig for oil we would have to dig for water.
|
|Okay, interesting point. Can 'solid' veins of water-ice be sounded out,
|then, with geophones and seismometers?
|
||Strange concept
|
|It is seductively attractive nevertheless.
|
|How wide can a frozen subterranean aquifer be on Mars?

Even if an aquifer appears to be frozen, doesn't it become liquid
if subjected to enough pressure? If that is the case, there is
a limit to how deep a 'frozen' aquifer may be, for at some point
underground there should be enough pressure to make it liquid.

"Micky Fin" wrote in message ...
Do you honestly belive mars is dry. When water turns to ice it goes nowhere.
I have no doubts its there. I think its underground. Like we dig for oil we
would have to dig for water.
Strange concept

Well... There are sure waters in Mars, but it probably resides in the
polar regions, and also underground.


As for transfering Earth's water to Mars.

How about the other way around?

Has anyone think that it's possible that most of Earth's water today
once came from Mars?

Perharps a long time ago the Earth was quite dry, and then somehow
Martian water flooded Earth. The end is one flooded Earth and one dry
Mars.

Now... On how the Martian water arrives on Earth, that one is a little
bit trickly to explain.