There was obviously once a fat river flowing between Agyre Planitia and the Margaritifer basin.

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You can just add an atmosphere and refill the oceans.

No

Totally doable

Doable but not like that. A planet is a live organism with cycles of activity.

How do you know its alive?

Now it's in hibernation mode. Both Venus and Mars were awake in the past. Mars will be inhabited once more, but not by creating an artificial atmosphere and such.

Your limits are only a product of your own imagination.

Wuuuuuuut!? 😅😂😆. This is a job for the Space Force!

I still wonder if all the water got evaporated into space when Mars lost (most) of its atmosphere, or if it’s under the surface…

Surviving on Mars will be pain in the ass. All water in ice caps on the poles… and people need to be on the equator for the most heat. Logistics nightmare.

Yeah I don't think we'll be colonizing it anytime soon. Its simply too cold. The moment we thicken the atmosphere, anything mechanical gets crusted in ice, like those run down soviet towns in Siberia - its only barely doable on earth.

The water is in frozen aquifers. You can see that there is a particarly big aquifer under the Valles Marinaris - the grand canyon on steroids. When water freezes, it expands. You can see that the west side of the canyon is a jagged broken surface, which looks like it got pushed by something underneath it - ice.

I think there's enough frozen water to entirely fill the oceans. There will be 3 oceans - the one that covers most of the northern hemisphere, the Argyre Planitia, and the Hellas Mare.

Drinking mead and staring at maps of Mars. Even though I think Venus is a better candidate for terraforming, its plain to see that Mars was once warm and watery.

I wonder if professionally made mead is better than this... This ain't bad.

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Why do you think Venus is a better candidate for terraforming?