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> If not enough water would be found underground on Mars, that would be really difficult to transport from elsewhere. I was under the (uneducated) impression t
by pavel_lishin 5mo ago
> If not enough water would be found underground on Mars, that would be really difficult to transport from elsewhere.
I was under the (uneducated) impression that there was a fair amount of water ice locked up in asteroids that are fairly easy to redirect into a Mars capture orbit.
- neaden 5mo ago"Fairly Easy" Is doing a lot of work there. Theoretically possible yes.
- bhelkey 5mo agoMars also has two polar ice caps [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_polar_ice_caps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_polar_ice_caps
- pasta67 5mo agoTrue... I had to look if wiki has some new information, but no - as expected it is frozen ice of co2 and not h2o. Getting that h from somewhere to make water is still going to be an issue on Mars.
- bhelkey 5mo agoI don't believe this is accurate. From the wiki: > The caps at both poles consist primarily of water ice. Frozen carbon dioxide accumulates as a comparatively thin layer about one meter thick on the north cap in the northern winter, while the south cap has a permanent dry ice cover about 8 m thick.