Water On Mars!?

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Racan

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Trapped inside a layer of fractured rock 7 to 13 miles (11.5 to 20 kilometers) beneath the Red Planet's outer crust, reaching the water would require a drilling operation that has yet-to-be achieved on Earth.
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Good luck trying to drill for it though.
 
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Greenman said:
What's the big del with water? Find a planet full of beer or whisky and then you'd have something.
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We need it for toilets. Humans are genetically predisposed to move from place to place because too much shit piling up in one place attracts predators. We need water to drink and to flush and to escape all the flies. And that's not to mention enema amene.
 
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I find it strange to say a hidden ocean has been discovered rather than hypothesized or theorized to exist. To me discover implies physical exploration and sensation.

But then on the internet everything is designed to attract attention.

"A weird thing has been discovered on Mars that everybody has everyone watering at the mouth about about and can make you rich beyond your dreams. We just need a go fund me to pool our resources and dig. Visit lakefrontproperties@ MartianRealEstate.com
 
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Forget Bruce Willis. Steve Buscemi is the real hero you want on the job.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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Moonbeam said:
I find it strange to say a hidden ocean has been discovered rather than hypothesized or theorized to exist. To me discover implies physical exploration and sensation.

But then on the internet everything is designed to attract attention.

"A weird thing has been discovered on Mars that everybody has everyone watering at the mouth about about and can make you rich beyond your dreams. We just need a go fund me to pool our resources and dig. Visit lakefrontproperties@ MartianRealEstate.com
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The article actually does say theorized, though it's very probably accurate. We've got a pretty good handle on things like mass, gravity, density, etc. We've also been looking for missing water on Mars for a long while now, so finding it isn't entirely unexpected. It's just in the wrong spot.
 
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[DHT]Osiris said:
Interestingly we have the tech to drill for that now, we just don't on earth because when you get that deep you tend to run into magma. No such issues on Mars so we can drill away.
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Don’t tell Iceland that…they’re working on it.
 
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[DHT]Osiris said:
Interestingly we have the tech to drill for that now, we just don't on earth because when you get that deep you tend to run into magma. No such issues on Mars so we can drill away.
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That is a good point.
Apparently the Russians and the Germans did find places to drill that deep without hitting magma liquid enough to be a problem.
Or that perhaps at least the magma solidified before it was a problem.
Thicker parts of the Earth crust ?
To name a few things, it is just a guess.

Still to have to watch documentaries

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The Kola Superdeep Borehole is a decommissioned Russian scientific drilling site located near the Russia-Norway border. The project's primary purpose was to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust, eventually reaching a record-setting 12,262 meters depth. As of 2024, the Kola Superdeep Borehole remains the deepest human-made hole on Earth.
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The German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB) was designed to study the properties and processes of the deeper continental crust by means of superdeep borehole. Major research themes were (1) the nature of geophysical structures and phenomena, (2) the crustal stress field and the brittle-ductile transition, (3) the thermal structure of the crust, (4) crustal fluids and transport processes, and (5) structure and evolution of the central European Variscan basement. The project was conducted in distinct phases: a preparatory phase (1982–1984), a phase of site selection (1985–1986), and a pilot phase (1987–1990), which included sinking of a pilot borehole to 4000 m and a 1-year experimentation program. The main phase (1990–1994) comprised drilling of a superdeep borehole which reached a final depth of 9101 m and a temperature of ~265 °C, and three subsequent large-scale experiments in the uncased-bottom hole section. Among the outstanding results are the following (1) A continuous profile of the complete stress tensor was obtained. (2) Several lines of evidence indicate that KTB reached the present-day brittle-ductile transition. (3) The drilled crustal segment is distinguished by large amounts of free fluids down to midcrustal levels. (4) The role of postorogenic brittle deformation had been grossly underestimated. (5) Steep-angle seismic reflection surveys depict the deformation pattern of the upper crust. (6) High-resolution seismic images of the crust can be obtained with a newly developed technique of true-amplitude, prestack depth migration. (7) The electrical behavior of the crust is determined by secondary graphite (±sulfides) in shear zones.
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audio frequencies at 9 Km deep

by Paul Prudence for Neutral, Italy In 2013 Dutch artist Lotte Geeven travelled to the deepest hole on the planet to make a set of recordings allowing her to make the sound of the Earth audible....
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In 2013 Dutch artist Lotte Geeven travelled to the deepest hole on the planet to make a set of recordings allowing her to make the sound of the Earth audible. Accompanied by a team of engineers, geophysicists and seismologists, she lowered equipment into the KTB super-deep borehole, created for the German Continental Deep Drilling Program, located on German/Czech border. The borehole descends through the lithosphere into geological strata where two landmasses merged over 300 million years ago to form the supercontinent Pangea. At nearly 9km deep the conditions in the hole prohibited the use of standard microphones. Instead sonic transducer data and geophone recordings were analysed and remapped into audio frequencies by software designed by her team specifically for the task. The Sound of Earth comprises an installation of artifacts, some based on the audio and visual documentation made on site, others made as a poetic response to the trip and the data gathered. A seismograph augments the audio recordings – the fine weaving of the pen trace tiny ink threads that seem almost at odds with the deep bass frequencies of the recordings. Seismically we might perceive the earth as a delicately trembling planet, whereas sonically the low growling sounds insinuate more agitated, angry, even sinister moods. Also included in the installation is a framed photograph of the team – testimony to huge collaborative aspect of such a work. A pair of low frequency optimized speakers are used to output the “sound of the earth” – a short sonic signature of a longer audio earthwork that has been evolving for 100's of million of years. Paul Prudence
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[DHT]Osiris

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William Gaatjes said:
That is a good point.
Apparently the Russians and the Germans did find places to drill that deep without hitting magma liquid enough to be a problem.
Or that perhaps at least the magma solidified before it was a problem.
Thicker parts of the Earth crust ?
To name a few things, it is just a guess.
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Naw, just that the earth isn't a uniform distribution. It's less of an egg, more of a trash pile.
 
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