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An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico (popularmechanics.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: A single underground deposit of ice on Mars contains about as much water as there is in Michigan's Lake Superior, according to new research from NASA. The deposit rests in the mid-northern latitudes of the Red Planet, specifically in the Utopia Planitia region. Discovered by the Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARD) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the deposit is "more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico," according to a NASA press release. It ranges in thickness from about 260 feet to about 560 feet, and has a composition that's 50 to 85 percent water ice, with what appears to be dust or larger rocky particles mixed in as well. None of the ice is exposed to the surface. At various points the dirt covering it is in between 3 and 33 feet thick.
haha BeuaHD, just reminding you that Trump won
Reports that our treasure has been discovered by the Earthlings have been far overstated. Our receivers have determined that initial reports were wrong, they merely found our waste pile in the northern wasteland. Our refuse has been covered there, mixed with rock and dirt, buried to keep it away from us. Be assured that the true heart of Martian treasure remains concealed well in the southern reaches.
And with that, he turned and exited.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I'm tired of all the lies that NASA keeps coming up with, but how the heck do they get SHARD from Shallow Subsurface Radar?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
will never allow us to get to it.
Shallow Subsurface Radar Telemetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The main belief of stupid flat earth truthers is that NASA is lying about everything
Well that seems plenty of water to supply a closed loop greenhouse system. Mars here we come!
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Trump will build a moisture-proof wall around it (with roof), and make Gary Johnson pay for it!
> as much water as there is in Michigan's Lake Superior,
So what is that? Aboutr 40% the volume of Lake Superior?
More than Minnesota's part, but less than Canada's? Or has Trump annexed the whole lake already?
That's very Americanist. It could have just as easily been reported as "Ontario's Lake Superior". Or, Since American reporting seems to so often lack the understanding that provinces exist, "Canada's Lake Superior".
If you follow the "according to new research from NASA" link in TFS, there's no reference whatsoever to either Michigan or Ontario:
Why quote the secondary source, Popular Mechanics, when the primary source is right at your fingertips?
Prior to this, the assumption was that the moisture percentage in the soil was only a few percent. This meant that to get water for a large greenhouse or to electrolyze to hydrogen to fuel a methane ascent rocket, you'd need a bulldozer and a large oven and rock crusher. Heavy stuff and hardly worth sending to Mars unless you were doing missions on a large scale (easier to just send the water you need and liquid hydrogen as payload on the lander).
If there really is a massive frozen lake of mostly water just a few feet down, you could land on a spot where the soil is thin and drill down. Maybe evaporate the water by sending hot CO2 down the hole or something, and collecting the moisture in the steam that rises back up. (you get the CO2 by compressing martian atmosphere and then heating it)
This seems a lot more feasible, though doing it using a purely robotic lander would still be very hard.
I'm still struggling with football pitches, olympic swimming pools and libraries of congress. How many of any of them make a New Mexico?
Martian Dasani
"high-fived" *obviously ;)
Lake Michigan is in New Mexico?
Why don't they use standard units like football fields, double-decker buses or, the correct one in this case, olympic sized swimming pools.
Is New Mexico big or small?
Kuato!!!!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
at Bowie Base One.
Sounds like it's time for Canada to build a floating wall, if Trumpsters are already trying to assert ownership over the whole body of water.
Not to mention that Minnesota and Wisconsin share a bit of shoreline, and might object to the characterization.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
"Michigan's Lake Superior" ?? !! The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the US state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. Michigan's portion of it is significantly less that the entire lake's volume.
*** Don't be dull.***
Are retarded. as Pleakley once said in "Lilo and Stitch" "Educate yourself!"
Lake Superior isn't a lake in Michigan. In fact, there are numerous states and provinces around Lake Superior.
Michigan mainly has several of the lesser and dirtier great lakes on it's borders.
We can't even build a self sustaining settlement in Antarctica and we're talking about Mars. At least here in Earth there is breathing air.
This seems like the perfect place to build the mars colony: underground and inside ice that will protect against gamma rays or whatever rays are coming from space that are dangerous. Tunneling through ice is much easier than building huge plastic inflatables filled with water on the surface to protect people, which is what I was seeing in the news before about prospective habitations.
How many areas of Wales?
This is wonderful! How fucking lucky are we that there's a ton of water on Mars. I mean this is about as good as it gets, right? Fuck yeah!