Is there water on other planets in our solar system?
14 Answers
- CarolOklaLv 72 months agoFavourite answer
Yes, there is. The Moon Mars and Europa all have water. It is UNDERGROUND on Mars. Other planets and moons, especially Enceladus and probably Uranus and Neptune, have cryo-geysers. Anyone. who insists Mars has no water is more than 10 years out of date and has no credibility.
- Anonymous2 months ago
Europa does have a hidden ocean dozens kilometers deep zx
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- 2 months ago
No surface water.
Some objects are thought to have some toxic aqueous fluids saturated with corrosive salts deep within them, but essentially any "water" that exists elsewhere in the solar system is either frozen solid, or is a gas that sublimates from the solid into the vacuum of space.
I am curious as to why you singled out water out of all the liquids and other substances that are known to exist in the solar system. Ever considered which planets have liquid hydrocarbons? Liquid CO2? Pools of molten sulphur? Geysers of liquid nitrogen?
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- jeffdanielkLv 42 months ago
Yes. Most of them have water, 1but not liquid water on the surface. Mars has ice all thru the ground. Europa and Ganymede and Enceladus have big liquid water oceans under miles of ice. Even the moon had some ice frozen in craters that are in darkness.
- tham153Lv 72 months ago
Yes, as follows:
Mercury--ice in deep craters near the poles
Moon--same as Mercury
Mars--polar caps, plus subsurface ice and/or water
Jupiter--small amount in atmosphere
Europa--possible subsurface oceans; surface ice
Ganymede--surface ice
Callisto--surface ice
Saturn--most of its 82 moons have lots of ice
Uranus--ice on some moons
Pluto--plenty of ice
- Anonymous2 months ago
Yes, the oceans of some of the moons of the gas giants have more water than all the oceans of the Earth.
- 2 months ago
There has been water ice detected on Mars and Mercury; it likely also exists on several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and on ours as well. Saturn's moon Enceladus is thought to have an subsurface supply of water; The Cassini probe flew through geyser plumes when it was in operation. Around Jupiter, Europa and Ganymede appear to have ice on the surface, and there may be an ocean beneath Europa's ice surface.
- billrussell42Lv 72 months ago
yes, water is fairly common.
Uranus and Neptune are thought to have a supercritical water ocean beneath their clouds, which accounts for about two-thirds of their total mass, most likely surrounding small rocky cores. Water on Mars exists today almost exclusively as ice, with a small amount present in the atmosphere as vapour. In June 2020, astronomers reported evidence that the dwarf planet Pluto may have had a subsurface ocean, and consequently may have been habitable, when it was first formed.
re moons:
Scientists' consensus is that a layer of liquid water exists beneath Europa's (moon of Jupiter) surface. Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has shown geysers of water, confirmed by the Cassini spacecraft. A subsurface saline ocean is theorized to exist on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, following observation by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015. Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may have a remnant internal ocean of liquid water under the layer of ice.
Source(s): wikipedia