What would happen if NASA did missions to mars that would dump massive amounts of water on Mars?

Question

Could this jump start the development of life on the planet?

Answer 1

actually,
Nasa has to sterilize ALL and EVERY square millimeter of ALL equipment that travels in space, on moons, on planets , and on asteroids. If they do not do this, earth born bacteria / virus could actaully be given a chance to reproduce in space (doubtfull) or on a planets (such as mars)

mars does have water around its core and it is pushed up toward the poles and begins to freeze (like our northpole)

viri and bacteria can live in very extreme temps. they could possibly survive the cold.

If earth born germs can make it to that area, they could continue to grow. multiply, and evolve. WE / NASA would be responsible for creating a new form of life on a planet.

This is NOT a goal right now though, many consider that it would be a greatly unethical action.

the idea is to find signs of naturally formed life, so that we can have hard numerical evidence that life is not only contained to 1 planet in our solar system, thusly increasing the probability to find life elsewhere in the universe

Mars has a BIG problem that I don't hear people talk about though.

Mars does NOT have a Magnetic Field anymore that can protect an atmosphere.

Answer 2

Well... that is one good question.

The answer is probably no, but...

The very first thing that needs to be done is to bring atmospheric pressure up and increase the greenhouse effect. There are actually viable suggestions to melt the CO2 ice caps with orbital mirrors and/or to use highly efficient greenhouse gases to heat up the surface.

Once the pressure and temperature are high enough to support liquid water in the equatorial areas (you don't want ice because ice will increase the albedo and put the planet into deep freeze again) one could imagine crashing thousands of large comets from the outer solar system into the planet. Please keep in mind that it takes 1000GW fusion engines to get a comet of cubic mile size to change its orbit enough to actually hit Mars after a century or so... we don't have any imaginable technology of that kind.

And it also depends on the Martian soil what happens once water is plentiful... in order to form anything resembling an ecosphere the water needs to form oceans, lakes and rivers and can not dissolve too many unfriendly minerals. The way I understand Martian soil chemistry, it is strongly oxidizing:

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/15016/1/00-1020.pdf

In other words... we make Mars wet and might end up with lakes and oceans of something that acts like hydrogen peroxide. Not to mention that the soil we have found seems to be able to absorb enormous amounts of water. So depending on how representative the few chemical samples we have are for the rest of the planet, it might take a lot more water than one can ever hope to get there.

Just a few thoughts... I sure don't expect any serious terraforming outside of Earth during my lifetime. Our first terraforming experiment is global warming, anyway.

Answer 3

Water is not very stable on the surface of Mars. The pressure there is so low and its so cold compared to Earth that water sitting on the surface would try to evaporate away and freeze at the same time. One or the other will win out, but the point is that liquid water would not last long on Mars. Definitely not long enough to produce life of any kind. Scientists know that water once existed there before, but at some point in the past Mars lost most of its atmosphere, and this lower pressure and temperature made all the liquid water disappear.

Answer 4

The real problem on Mars is not the lack of water but the thin atmosphere that does not retain enough heat. What is really needed is a lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) to thicken up the atmosphere and make the planer warm enough for water to remain liquid. Then life can develop.

Counter to what the other responders said, it is practical to transport a lot of water and CO2 to Mars just not from Earth. The best way would be to change a course of a comet to crash land on Mars. (And no it's not possible today but maybe within a century...)

Answer 5

What would happen? We would run out of rocket fuel and go broke before there was enough Earth water there to support a small city, if you mean human life on Mars. Funny thing about life, it takes life to get life. So the only way to jump start life on Mars would be to bring it there.

Answer 6

Other responders have noted this would be impractical to do, and in relative terms Mars may have "massive" amount of water compared to what could be transported there. The other problem is that if Mars is losing water through evaporation and diffusion through its thin atmosphere to space, will this water suffer the same fate?

Answer 7

that's honestly significant. that's impossible TO GET TO MARS. The Russians tried and had countless adult men killed interior the innovations-set of attempting to bypass to Mars or only get previous the radiation belt. they have on no account been effectual. It only can't be completed. we are able to basically shuttle so some distance into area until we attain this radiation belt. yet they're going to use computing device generated photographs or in spite of to instruct a Mars landing (no i do no longer think of the moon landing replace into faked, this is unimportant). the rationalization they choose people to have faith existence existed in Mars is by way of the fact they choose people to have faith in extraterrestrial beings. that's between the greater hidden initiatives which NASA is given. the assumption is to instruct interior the close to destiny that extraterrestrial beings do exist. the assumption of royalty initially got here from the thought extraterrestrial beings and people mixed blood and their offspring may be royalty. people will as a result settle for people as God rather of the authentic God as God. it extremely is the purpose of the persons pushing this (the illuminati). The Illuminati intend to instruct that they are the offspring of this and their chief (additionally popular because of the fact the antichrist or dajjal) is an prompt descendant. In different words, they wanna instruct that they are God. that's the rationalization for countless of those style of issues in our custom. They wanna instruct that our existence got here from yet another existence and not God. i comprehend that it style of feels some distance fetched and that's, in fact stranger than fiction so i might propose you to analyze it up your self, there is scattered evidence everywhere. in case you have an interest, enable me comprehend and that i'll supply you some suggestion and data yet i'm basically a uni student so i'm no expert on those products.

Answer 8

There is water on Mars. Mars has ice caps. NASA lies to us about Mars.

Answer 9

It would freeze. Mars already has water (in the form of ice).

Answer 10

How could they possibly transport massive amounts of water there?