is it planet mars contain water?

Answer 1

Maybe . It is lava I think .

Answer 2

Planet Mars does not really contain water, but the ice poles of Mars and the pressure of oxygen gives it water, but not liquid type of water. There is only a lsmall amount of it, though, not like Earth.

Extra: A scientist actually discovered that if the pollution is going on like this, we might have to move to Mars, 40 years later

Answer 3

Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars with its present low atmospheric pressure, but water ice is in no short supply, with two polar ice caps made largely of water ice, and a water ice permafrost mantle stretching down from the pole to lattitudes of about 60°. Much larger quantities of water are thought to be trapped underneath Mars' thick cryosphere, only to be released when the crust is cracked through volcanic action. The largest such release of liquid water is thought to have occurred when the Valles Marineris formed early in Mars' history, enough water being released to form river valleys across the planet. A smaller but more recent event of the same kind occurred when the Cerberus Fossae chasm opened about 5 million years ago, leaving a sea of frozen ice still visible today on the Elysium Planitia.

More recently the high resolution Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor has taken pictures which give much more detail about the history of liquid water on the surface Mars. Despite the many giant flood channels and associated tree-like network of tributaries found on Mars there are no smaller scale structures that would indicate the origin of the flood waters. It has been suggested that weathering processes have denuded these indicating the river valleys are old features. Higher resolution observations from spacecraft like Mars Global Surveyor also revealed at least a few hundred features along crater and canyon walls that appear similar to terrestrial seepage gullies. The gullies tended to be Equator facing and in the highlands of the southern hemisphere, and all poleward of 30° latitude.[11] The researchers found no partially degraded (i.e. weathered) gullies and no superimposed impact craters, indicating that these are very young features.
Changing gully deposits on Mars
Changing gully deposits on Mars

In a particularly stiking example two photographs, taken six years apart, show a gully on Mars with what appears to be new deposits of sediment. Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, argues that only the flow of material with a high liquid water content could produce such a debris pattern and colouring. Whether the water results from precipitation, underground or another source remains an open question. However, alternative scenarios have been suggested, including the possibility that the deposits were caused by carbon dioxide frost or by the movement of dust on the Martian surface

Further proof that liquid water once existed on the surface of Mars comes from the detection of specific minerals such as hematite and goethite, both of which sometimes form in the presence of water.

Answer 4

Mars derives its name after the Roman god of war and has a surface that is composed of basaltic rock and other altered materials. Mars is the planet that is most often compared to Earth, due to its similar rotational period and its orbital period is only two times that of Earth. But Mars is only about half the size of Earth and only has one-tenth the mass of the green and blue planet. Mars does have two polar ice caps, which are composed of frozen water and carbon dioxide (dry ice). With the northern polar cap being larger and colder than the southern one. Mars also has the features of dried riverbeds, which give evidence to the fact that Mars once may have contained water on its surface and may have harboured some types of life forms. This water vapour probably disappeared after Mars cooled off after its planetary formation. And this vapour formed into clouds and ran along the surface to create the current dry water beds and may have even caused mud slides. But Mars lost its water most likely by its lack of ozone and the water molecules split into their simplifier elements and escaped the thin atmosphere. Today, Mars does not contain any liquid water on its surface, but there may be some located under the Martian permafrost, which is found beneath the surface along with the frozen forms of water at its poles. The atmosphere of Mars is very similar to that of Venus, but it is much thinner than the mourning star planet. The cause is from a very small gravitational field, which can not prevent light gases from escaping its atmosphere. The small gravitational field is directly due to the dwarf size of the planet, Mars. Therefore, the greenhouse effect is not much of a threat to the planet. Mars also holds the title of having the smallest orbiting satellite, which is the moon Deimos (which means panic). The Marian atmosphere consists of 9% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, and 1.6% argon. Mars sports its distinct red colour due to the large amount of oxidised iron found on its surface. The surface of Mars is a barren, desolate, crater-covered planet that often sees violent dust storms. Also the surface of Mars has levels of ultraviolet radiation that would kill any type of life form. Mars does contain a very thick outer crust, which is responsible for many of the planets geological features. The largest geographic feature of the planet is that of Olympus Mons, which climbs to a towering height of around 24 km. In fact, Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the whole solar system. The base is about the size of the state of Missouri and is about double the size of any volcano on Earth. Mars also contains the largest valley in the solar system, called the Thar sis, which is a massive valley formed about 10 kilo meters above the Marian surface. Next to the Thar sis is the Valleys Marineris, which runs about the length of New York to Los Angeles and at some spots is close to 4 miles deep.

Answer 5

Mars does contain water, but it's in the form of ice. Also, just a little bonus, Saturn may contain liquid that's not water.

Answer 6

Absolutely yes..! There are two polar ice caps on Mars and ice is water. Also there's growing evidence that liquid water recently flowed on Mars, and may do so even today.

Answer 7

it actually contains frozen carbon-di-oxide and not exactly water......recently two robots called rover and spirit was sent to mars which collected the information saying that it has got some signs that water was once flowing over the surface of mars but now every thing is frozen ...but it is not yet sure that it was H2o or
CO2....lets wait for complete results....have patience dear!

Answer 8

yes, planet mars is containing water but that water is not suitable for human beings or any other living creature.

Answer 9

Yes they found large deposits of ice on the south pole area of Mars.

Answer 10

The polar regions of mars have been found (reportedly) to contain large quantities of ice.

Answer 11

Well, it only contains frozen water. Scientists also found traces of underground springs. I found this in one of my RSS feeds a few days ago. It is pretty interesting: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/16/0228259&from=rss