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Are there swamps in Mars

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No. For two reasons:

# The temperature on the Martian surface is less than 0 Celsius and thus any water (to form a swamp) would be in the form of ice and therefore solid. # The atmospheric pressure on Mars is so low that water can not exist at the surface. If you place a lump of ice on Mars and heated it, it would go straight form solid Ice to water vapor. Thus this again means that there can be no water on the surface of mars with which to form a wet swamp. However, having said this please understand that there is H2O on Mars in the form of ICE and water vapor - we do not know how much H2O there is at the moment and we believe that there was quite allot of liquid water on Mars' surface in the ancient past.

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16y ago

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