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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Enough liquid water on Mars to cover the surface to a depth of 1 mile
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:27:24 -0500
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/12/science/mars-crust-water-reservoir-insight/index.html

If this is true could we colonize Mars?  The article claims that 
evidence is that deep in the martian crust water saturates cracks and 
crevices.  A whole lot of water.  Mars lost it's atmosphere, but 
apparently since there is no plate tectonics on Mars and the entire 
crust is just shrinking and cracking as it cools, a layer of cracked up 
crust exists 11 to 20 km below the surface that contains liquid water.

Since the mantle is still molten wouldn't you expect geothermal geysers 
to reach the surface as this water came into contact with the hot 
sections of the crust and mantle as crust continues to shrink and crack 
up?  Would you need active volcanos on the surface to have geothermal 
geysers?

We have found living bacteria that apparently only replicate 
infrequently in water staturated deep rocks on earth, so would life be 
expected to have survived if it ever existed on Mars?

If the water exists we might make it available to colonists by crashing 
an asteroid or a piece of one of Mars' moons into the surface of the 
planet.  My guess is that would generate volcanic activity and some of 
the water would be forced back into the atmosphere or at least to the 
surface.  The Chicxulub impact was for a 6.6 km diameter asteroid and 
fractured the Earth's crust down to 20 km.

Ron Okimoto