For all of those of us buying one of those one way tickets to mars with out crypro earnings when BTC hits 100K or 1 million dollars, you can now pack your swimming gear.
A lake, or permanent body of water has now been discovered on mars. It's about 20 km across but unfortunately only a bout 1 meter deep.
The only other catch is you will need to pack more than just your ice saw.
You will need some serious ice drilling equipment, since its under 1.5 km of ice beneath Mars's south pole.
Its been fascinating watching the rovers and other scientific instrumentation discover all kinds of signs of liquid water on mars's surface from the past and some transient but very temporary water on mars even today but this is very different in that it appears to be a permanent body of liquid water.
This has been published in Science and is being covered by most of the usual suspects so you can read more about it there.
Here is a short video courtesy of BBC via YouTube.
Pack the swim trunks?.....wiseguy.
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Very exciting news, I think we long expected this but increased confidence in the presence of water on Mars is very exciting for the future of colonization.
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We have so much shit to fix on earth before ever having a need for Mars.
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This is such powerful news for many of us interested in the development of life's facets all over the cosmos... Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Namaste :)
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I cant swim, so 1 meter deep is very good and safe for me :)
Thats good new and I will be prepared :D
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That's is a crazy thought. Would you go explore the rocks on mars if consumer flights became available, @gavvet?
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Does that mean life is possible on mars ?
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Not exactly. If water is in liquid state so deep it need a lot of salt to lower its freezing temperature. Therefore its too cold and too salty.
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But the title of the post says to pack our swimming trunks
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This are good news
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This are some pretty interesting news. I'll save like mmm 200,000 sats for the trip in like 5 years haha. 200,000 dollars of a trip sounds acceptable.
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I was reading about this earlier. It's very exciting!
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It is impressive how science advances every day with this new discovery, but as long as they continue destroying the planet with their experiments, wars, pollution among other things they will continue to do the same with other planets only if they want to " Inhabit them "
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It is very interesting are there some life forms in the water. And when Curiosity will step on the beach .... ;)
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How many flights to Mars will it take to get a tube that long? One and a half kilometers is a long way to go if you are thirsty.
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Congratulations @gavvet!
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Wow!!!great news.is it possible???
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Yessssss.............
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Fascinating! However, I like my feet firmly planted on Earth. I don't even sky dive:-D
Have you seen the series "Expanse"? It is an excellent show about colonies on Mars and in the Asteroid belt that conflict with each other as well as Earth. They are brought together by an alien force. I am following you and will up vote your post. Please reciprocate.
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