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- Researchers have discovered an underground, liquid water lake on Mars! What might it be like, and why did it take us so long to find it?
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@ 2:45 the conversion should be 32°F, not -32°F
Thanks to those who pointed it out!
you know what i've been thingking?
why don't we just dump our co2 and ch4 excess to mars? so by the time we colonize mars, we don't need spend much to transform mars. and we didn't need to worry about climate change because of methane and carbondioxide that we produce
This is the reason why planes crash.
Could it be Lava instead?
Bonaventura mostly because it would take a super long time even with super compressed gases and huge space ships it's on the order of trillions of tons it can be done but like global climate change on Earth it would take hundreds of years for a few degrees of change and Mars needs a lot more than a few degrees the biggest factor would be if the runaway greenhouse effect would be strong enough to speed up the process.
Spacemarine658 It's still a good idea, since a few hundred years isn't that long relative to the universe.
those aliens sure are sneaky about hiding their natural resources
Scott Mantooth Wait until they do more research on the Xenon 129 found on Mars!
Wait until we find their oil deposits.
We will be there faster than you can process your food.
My 0x1E looks like mars could use some American freedom
@@DanielMosey Right 😂😂😂
We now believe these aliens have weapons of mass destruction.
It’s Goo Lagoon.
Uriah Siner lol
Love the fact that she's genuinely excited about the info she's sharing with us ! She even has the same watery eyes I had the first time I watched this video (yeah I just keep showing it to friends and it's awesome every single time).
It's my 21st birthday today(July 25) and this saved the entire day
Toboez happy birthday!
Toboez Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Toboez, happy birthday to yooouuuu! BTW sweet profile pic, I have a Tuxedo cat too. His name is Moo cuz he looks like a cow 🐄.
Happy 21st Birthday! To you!
Happy Birthday!
Happy 21st! :D
This changes EVERYTHING! 😲 Of course more observations are needed but HOT DAMN! 👍😁
Actually, pretty cold damn.
Huntracony 😀
Cold moist brine :)
Huntracony this is the type of pun I LIVE for!
It's a pleasant surprise, but actually doesn't change anything. Mars is still dead.
SciShow Space ending the episode sending me to SciShow's video on the findings. SciShow ending its episode by sending me back to this video. I'm stuck in a loop. HELP
Stay here until it's confirmed it's a water lake
I love your enthusiasm.
Indeed, her enthusiasm is infectious and just plain adorable. I just wish she could curb it a little bit and speak a little slower, we are not all native english speakers.
Meth is a helluva drug.
Agreed. Very good energy coming from her.
It's really cute. Maybe a little too much for me personally, but its cute.
All you have to do is look at how animals on Earth, as far down as the Mariana trench which tonnes of pressure from each side, cold temperatures, no light and high saline concentrations thrive to see how it's not so farfetched to have the idea of microbial life in Mar's underwater lake(s)
Purplepoppyanimator what about the huge amounts of concentrated constant radiation due to the lack of significant atmosphere or magnetosphere?
Bacteria have been known to survive the radiation of empty space, the radiation would be less concentrated underground and not exposed to the sunlight.
The atmosphere is thin and there's a lack of ozone so it would make surface life virtually impossible, but underneath is a different story, that's why Theories like Europa can have slight possibilities of extremophiles surviving in these environments, this isn't complex life but most likely unicellular, if any.
Some animals and bacteria thrive in extreme conditions, like underground ocean trenches, volcanic ash making the surrounding water boiling yet some thrive off eating the methane etc.
You never know what life can adapt to survive in, that's what makes the idea of discovering extraterrestrial life so much more fun to think about, who knows how differently they could have evolved to us? And what we could learn from that.
Purplepoppyanimator that's nothing compared to the microorganisms that live in the underground lake that is the source of blood falls in the artic
@@PurplePoppyAnimator If Mars had life earlier then I am 200 percent sure that it might have microbes living underground lake because such microbes are impossible to go to extinct
Thank you!!! You make the show!!! And we love it!!!
I am always floored when science makes a discovery like this because it just demonstrates so clearly how little we really know. A lake of liquid water on Mars is a game changer insofar as the possibility of life. Amazing.
Uhhhhh 0C is not -32F, its 32F @ 2:53
Fahrenheit is confusing, give 'em a break xD
Broockle it's not, anyone can look up the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Especially an editor reviewing the script.
And they make fun of flat earthers.... smh... flat earth rules!
Mark Mathews I genuinely hope thats sarcasm
which stupid people use Fahrenheit anyways ..oh right
Congrats Italy, didn’t really expect it from you guys but congrats.
Thanks, didn't really expected a compliment from you guys but congrats.
Razgriz
Congrats, didn’t really expect and compliment from a compliment but co grays
Jeffrey Muu why not
Time to pollute it! Clean water is a federal violation.
Harry 8642 Mars is covered in perchlorates which are commonly associated with toxic waste on Earth. It comes pre-polluted, lucky us.
That water is anything but clean
Step by step, closer to find extremophiles on Mars !
The Exoplanets Channel yessshhh
The Exoplanets Channel yes !
The Exoplanets Channel i agree
The Exoplanets Channel we live exciting times
The Exoplanets Channel to be exact, extremophiles that feast on perchlorates
Coming from a team of Italian research,this news make me proud of my sometime "underrated" country
I saw people talking about this on Twitter and instinctually checked to see if the SciShow channels had a synopsis of the discovery and of course you did. Thanks for always being ready to interpret the news, you're one of my most trusted sources!
I love her! Her excitement is contagious.
Wow that's huge ! Hey, anyone remembers the end of Mars season 1 ? "There's life on Mars" announcement in the next 5 years guaranteed.
Mars season 1?
I want this lady to have her own youtube channel, shes awesome to listen to
Ok... just found out my favorite science based showed is filmed right by my home town of Polson, Montana on Flathead Lake... no... freakin... way! 🤓🔥
Now I'm curious exactly where. SKC? FVCC? Basement in Pablo?
Jacob Wing No it's not, they're actually on Mars as the 9th colony establishment. That's how they know about the water. Either that or they're aliens and they've always known about the lake.
Your town is called Poison ? How nice.
Good thing we have different letters in the alphabet like "L" and "I" that would make that whole comment unnessary.
That makes sense there is so much more to be excited to be about
Get hype lads and ladettes!
sonikku956
I can only get so erect
All my likes go to these two videos!!!!
There is a typo in the title, it should be Mars', not Mars's. When putting a word ending in s in it's possessive form, you only include the apostrophe.
GIRGHGH Aka Girg
You bigot, according Oxford University insisting on proper use of English is racist.
only if it's in the plural
Either is acceptable in American English.
I'm not saying they should change it or anything, I'm just sayin'. Helpful intent is all.
Things I learned:
- there's a freaking LAKE ON MARS
- there are planetary protection laws
Both of these things are SUPER exciting to me! 🤓
Never before gas it been so great to find a lake.
It's Mars' brain. Didn't you know? He's a celestial
Guys this is huge. And so freaking awesome.
We need a sample? Ugh Fine. I guess I'll go get it then. Who's coming with?
I could listen to you all day and night 🌙
Because it’s underground.......on another planet?!??
Yeah, but they said that long before they had found i undergound lakes... on a moon... much farther away.
I was just sarcasticaly pointed that the reasons he pointed weren't the most valids. And besides the sides they say they had found it before, they just had rejected the posibility of liquied water due to the temperature.
She's literally glowing
At the moment the lake seems to be too *cool* for life but hopefully it *warms up* to the idea.
I think those puns might have just done it... Life count: 0
Is there any information about how deep under the surface this lake was measured? Or isn't MARSIS capable of doing that?
DerSamalander , I think it's 1km.
Thanks :) Then it's really hard to drill deep enough to reach the underground lake and take a sample.
DerSamalander, they mentioned in SciShow's (not SciShow Space's) video on this lake, that it is roughly 1 Km underground.
DerSamalander at 1:44 she mentions the lake might be at 1.5 km under the surface
I don't think it would be a huge problem, the low gravity together with really slow space dust would though
Awesome. Absolute fuckin AWESOME! Congrats and sincere hopes for further discoveries!!
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens
possibly, but no anthropomorphic creatures yet, (un)fortunately ;)
This is so exciting. If the temperatures are regulated somewhat, then probably life is possible. We don't know what kind of liquid water that is. Maybe so saturated with salt that it can no longer freeze, even when the temperature is low? In those cases, can life even survive?
Amazing news and thanks for quickly putting together such a great video.
What is preventing the "lake" from freezing solid? Is geologic heat keeping it in a liquid state? Also, if it is so salty could anything live in it? Maybe algae?
Imagine being on that first team who thought"... no.. it's probably not water "
How's the fishing?
If this discovery pans out there is almost certainly life on Mars.
Flathead Lake...! So nice. I love MT. I was lucky enough to work at GP for a couple summers.
A lake won't feed a small village in the valley for 3 weeks.
This is awesome news, now I know where I want my Mars Igloo getaway house to be, right next to the salty poison quicksand deathtrap. The kids will love skiing in this one.
This is pretty exciting!
I know right? I'm fully erect
colin Paterson
Yo, thats too mean. Shes not the most attractive woman, but come on, save the “mrs shrek” comments for people who actually deserve it.
Damn. ALIENS!
No, MacDonald on mars.
Clear Sky it's never aliens
mrpostman222 that only implies that no explanation never really is aliens. Not that there is no aliens. Like the quote though :)
Aliens!!!
Martians
Hello y'all are my absolute favorite science channel and today is my bday and it would mean the world to me if y'all commented or something I love seeing an update that shows it's your channel
Holy crap! This just opens up a whole lot more possibilities for life in MARSSSS (if there was any) im so excited
Time for a small lake party to celebrate! I’ll bring the food! Who’s bringing the spaceship? 😂
BRAVO!
This is amazing!!!
Ha! My home was mentioned! (flatheadlake)
So the area is mostly surrounded by volcanic rock. It's possible there is a volcano heating up the water. Almost like How yellowstone heat up water there to form geysers
OH MY GOOOOOOOD
How exciting!
Flagging this video as needing (not just auto-generated) subtitles. Please help us hard of hearing and deaf folks access your content!! 🥰🤟🏻
Wait, your channel Is based in Montana? Never would have guessed that.
I was hoping for alien fossils but this is neat.
omg omg omg, maybe there will be bacteria!!!!
sniperammow
No pal, not maybe, there will be. 😉
No there are none
bacteria? you mean becteriozoids? These are aliens, show some respect.
kkg _47
Shut up troll
Hopefully not stuff we put there accidentally
Let's all wait for a new paper to be published which casts doubt on these findings.
This is very interesting!
Awesome news
I can't remember who said it, but there's a phrase that makes me think that we're going to find life in that lake. "Where we find water, we find life."
Such a great news!
NASA should send a robotic drill station there, if needed in multiple launches, if so, the best idea would be to send all needed parts to the ISS with some missions and then send rocket parts there and then assemble the whole thing, to then send it off to Mars.
What i mean is, sending everything in one mission would be stupid.
This would also be great if we decided to build a Colonie on Mars, sending everything needed to the iss and assemble the whole thing in orbit, is way more efficient than in one go.
Our local neighbor is once again proving how cool it is. Thanks Mars!
This discovery is certainly worth the "stop the presses" excitement but not because it holds out an even remotely plausible hope of e-t life. It is exciting because when (or if) we establish a human presence on Mars we may be able to use it to our advantage.
have you ever discussed what would be the real life implications of actually finding life in another planet?
1. We would learn a lot about life itself. For life science this would be a giant leap
2. Nothing else would happen. Well possibly NASA's budget would be less cut than it would be otherwise.
3. America bringing "Democracy"
It's spooky, because it means life forming is not the great barrier that is responsible for Fermi paradox and increases the chances that we are yet to crash against it.
I think I remember that line of though a little bit... when conditions were right here in Earth we did have many different creatures developing in parallel though, most are dead because others were better suited, but maybe it could just be a matter of having the right conditions and time, after all... we might be doomed, but things already are the way they are, and at least it would be very interesting!
A day of celebration, religious questioning, etc then back to normal life within a week or two
What's next? A beer volcano?
SUCH A AWESOME NEWS !!!!!!!!!
Calling it. Mars has some sort of life somewhere
Awesome!
Awesome discovery!
Thank you, you're my go to nerds
Wow thats pretty COOL
Do u get it, because its cold on mars, i think
This is so exciting!
1 km below the surface of Mars you say?
As someone on the SciShow video said:
If only there was a billionaire out there who owned both a rocket company *and* a boring company.
How many times have I seen this breaking news?
There's gold in them thar hills!
Wasn't most of the water along with the atmosphere stripped off by the solar wind?
Radio Head
The Gunman I love Radiohead.
Note to NASA. NEED to put fishing pole on next Rover. 😁
if there _is_ life we are pretty much dead
Yep, you read Fermi's Paradox as well. I am half expecting the Vogon Fleet to arrive any day now. It's been nice.
Unless it's related to life on Earth
They've cried wolf one too many times for me, seems an impossibility
The Waters of Mars
I think that's so cool
Is it possible that in the time since losing its' atmosphere & the loss of its' oceans, the erosion of Mars' surface covered vast quantities of water in deep layers of soil? Sandstorms redistributing the Martian topography could have saturated what bodies remained with perchlorates while sealing said bodies under ground.
Basically, what happened first, surface erosion or evaporation?
Dale Frewaldt you know Earth has a water table right. Its called well water.
Yes, but I'm curious to know if a Martian water table would exist because of similar processes as those on Earth, or if they're a unique byproduct of Mars' transformation to a "dead" planet.
Why are there no subtitles for this ep?
Does flathead lake still cause horrible itchiness?
if it weren't as toxic, perchlorate could be used as disinfectant. don't get your hopes for finding extraterrestrial life up just yet.
No one says the scientists who discovered this Lake are italians.
If they aren't Americans or British don't deserve a mention?!
Francesco Borghese NASA is trying to take all the credits
One step closer to finding the IRL Martians
This video doesn't even have auto-generated captions as an option. :(
I bet that water has life in it.
Man I hope NASA has a rover locked up somewhere for a moment like this
And when you say "floating in the atmosphere" you mean "carried away forever by the solar wind.
She so excited
Key word “probably”