Hey guys, it's Mike Chen,
For those of you who are thinking about living on Mars
or want to be the first group of humans to move to Mars and colonize it,
there's a little bit of good news.
Researchers studying high resolution photos
taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found massive ice sheets.
And although we did already know that there is ice on Mars
but what's surprising is that the ice is relatively pure.
The team studied 8 locations on the Red Planet where massive landslides had recently occurred.
And much to their surprise, they discovered ice sheets,
more than 300 feet thick in some of the studied regions.
According to Colin Dundas, a planetary geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey,
"At these locations its quite a thick ice sheet of rather clean ice.
There's certainly some amount of dust and debris in it,
and there can be small amounts of salts or other things as well,
but what we're seeing at the scarps are predominately ice,"
He also believes that the now exposed ice is sublimating into the Martian atmosphere,
meaning it is turning from a solid directly into a gas.
And because it is on such steep hillsides or scarps as they called it,
the researchers can see a cross-section of the ice and they believe the ice is surprisingly pure.
which could mean that this ice is able to turn into water as a resource.
One theory of where the ice sheet came from involves snow in the distant past
where researchers believe that something caused it to be deposited and then deposited again.
But if it was snow from a long time ago,
a snowy Mars would have been a really long time ago,
perhaps when it was a wetter world, sported its own magnetic field
that would have shield from solar wind.
Now like I mentioned,
if this ice is indeed pure, it could be utilized as a resource.
But there is a problem,
because the photographed ice is in the midlatitudes about 55 degrees north or south of its equator,
meaning it will probably be out of reach at least for the first batch of humans brave enough
to make the 35 million mile journey to Mars.
Of course, both NASA and The European Space Agency (ESA)
have Mars missions slated to launch in 2020.
And each exploratory payload will carry rovers
capable of collecting more information about subsurface ice.
And the ground-penetrating radar will be on the NASA unit,
and a drill that can dig 7 feet deep will be equiped on the ESA's ExoMars rover.
Maybe one of those should make room for Bruce Willis as well.
So hopefully by then, we'll forget how deep the ice goes,
how pure the ice is,
and if there's actually liquid underneath the Martian's surface.
But here is my question for you,
let's say you're one of the first people on Mars,
and for some reasons, you run out of water,
and the only thing you have access to is all the ice that,
So my question is,
let's say, close to your camp that you can get to.
would you drink that?
I think I would, then as a precaution, I think I would have to prepare myself psychologically
for like an alien being to climb out of my stomach.
Anyway guys, let me know in the comments below,
would you be one of the first people to colonize on Mars?
And would you drink the water?
Thank you all so much for watching.
See you later.
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