A couple of months ago, NASA announced that there is water on Mars under the surface of the Red Planet. That is interesting on several levels. It is good news because water can create various forms of life. The other intriguing issue was that NASA’s Mars Insight Lander landed on Mars in 2018 and wasn’t there looking for water. NASA scientists discovered water while probing “the pulse of Mars.” The Mars Lander recorded 1,319 quakes during the four years of recording on the Red Planet.

Mars has massive water reservoirs under the surface, which is the good news. The bad news is that water reservoirs are six to twelve miles under the Martian desert. The dry and desolate desert has been there for the last three billion years. Before the desert time, some sort of life had existed on Mars. Due in part to the Red Planet losing much of its atmosphere, Mars has had no surface water for billions of years.

This photo clearly shows where the rivers flowed billions of years ago. It is an interesting photo of a delta that stretches nearly 300 miles. It is a Martian version of the Nile Delta. Unfortunately, tapping into the frozen water isn’t feasible. That distance is equivalent to the length of a half-marathon.

A Martian delta

Without water, life can’t exist. However, scientists estimate that if the subterranean ice reservoirs were melted, the water would cover the entire planet with a depth of over 100 feet of water. At one time, over three million years ago, there might have been some life forms on Mars. Unfortunately, tapping into the frozen water isn’t feasible. Some of the areas of Martian water are six miles from the surface. In other areas of the Red Planet, the depth is of the Martian water is twice, roughly equivalent to the distance of a half-marathon.

When someone reads to Trump before he goes to sleep at night, they could read NASA’s report about Mars. The New Great Dictator might doze off dreaming about seizing Greenland, annexing Canada, taking the Panama Canal back, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America...or maybe the Gulf of Trump. However, our New Great Dictator might enjoy including Mars in his acquisition list. That idea will be floating around in the very stable genius’s mind as he sleeps.