Water on Mars

What would happen if all the water on Earth moved to Mars?

There are about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water on Earth - enough to form a global ocean on Mars with an average depth of 100-137 meters. Recently, we have been hearing more and more about new ideas about settling on Mars. Let's imagine for a moment what would happen if we were to transport all of Earth's water to Mars.

The water would mostly accumulate in the northern plains of Mars, forming one large ocean, as well as several smaller seas and lakes, in craters and valleys.

Spending a vacation on a new planet with red sands doesn't sound so bad, but it's not exactly easy.

Mars has a very thin atmosphere, low gravity, and no magnetic field. Valley, which means that the water would either freeze or evaporate quickly and disappear into space.

Those who want to sunbathe during the day would have to visit the beach at +20 degrees, but they would receive 75 times more radiation than on Earth.

Due to the low gravity, water from the oceans would soon rise into the sky and leave Mars.

Those who would have to watch the waves during a romantic walk on the beach at night at -60 degrees Celsius, against a dark sky, would also be disappointed, because Mars does not have one of the main advantages of Earth - the moon. Both of Mars' moons are a hundred times smaller than our Moon.

To avoid all of the above, it would be necessary to:

● significantly thicken the atmosphere

● heat the surface

● create an artificial magnetic field

And if life were to emerge? It wouldn't be whales or forests - but underground microbes clinging to minerals in the extreme cold.

The journey isn't easy either - a spacecraft flies to Mars in 6-9 months.

But crossing the oceans? That would take centuries and technology that doesn't yet exist. Getting clean water wouldn't be easy either, because you wouldn't even find a Lolu water dispenser.

While Mars dreams of oceans, we still have them here, close by.

Let's protect what we already have: clean and safe water.

This is not fantasy - it's our daily responsibility.